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THINK RIGHT 



By the Same Author 



Think Right for Health Success 
Mental Harmony, Its Influence on Life 



THINK RIGHT 



FOR 



HEALTH AND SUCCESS 



BY 



GRACE M; BROWN 

AUTHOR OF MENTAL HARMONY, ETC. 




NEW YORK 

EDWARD J. CLODE 

PUBLISHER 



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COPYRIGHT, I916 
BY EDWARD J. CLODE 




MAY 3 1916 



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FOREWORD 

HE brightest of sunny days, 

The bluest of soft warm skies 
as a brilliant sun looked down upon 
a group of men gathered about a wondrous 
man with glorious love in his tender eyes 
as he bent above them to impress his words 
upon their hearts. 

"As you think in your hearts, so are you," 
said he: — as you think, as you think in 
your hearts. 

And, while hundreds of years have passed 
into infinite memories since that sweet sunny 
day — although hundreds of teachers have 
said again, "As you think in your heart, so 
are you," — the day has not yet arrived 
when men know that it is true and that they 
truly become whatever they think in their 
hearts. 

Each soul has his own place in God's great 
realm — each child has his own place in 
God's earth home, and it is not an accidental 



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home nor an accidental place, no indeed — 
it is the place which he creates for himself, 
the home wherein his own thought has placed 
him. 

When the man thinks according to the 
right angle of his earth position and when he 
holds steady that position in the right angle 
of his part of life, he attracts to himself all 
that is good in universal life. 

And the good of life is all that is worth 
while in our being and in our living — health, 
success, opulence, and happiness on all planes. 

Verily there are no terrible life errors when 
the man thinks within his own right angle of 
life. 

And never was a truer work spoken to 
the souls of men than "As a man thinketh 
in his heart, so is he." 

To think the thought which appeals to you 
Is to do the thing which is right for you. 
To live the life which belongs to you 
Means life's truth to you. 



CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Foreword v 

Human Measurement 3 

Study of Common Sense Spirituality . . 29 

Study Concerning Thought 45 

Study Concerning Freedom 61 

Study Concerning Healing 79 

Study Concerning the Fourth Dimension . 97 

Study of Experience 123 

Study of Why 141 

Whole-ness 159 

Study of Freedom 175 

Afterword 179 



THINK RIGHT 



We measure ourselves 

By the quality of our thought, 

By the strength of our desire, 

By the purity of our love, 

And by the accuracy of our selection. 

Then let us know 

That we become what we think, 

That we do as we desire, 

That we have what we love, 

And that we manifest God's life as we select. 

Therefore: 

Let us qualify in truth, 

Let us desire to do good, 

Let us love God's treasures, 

And let us select health on all planes 

That we may measure ourselves in His Name. 




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HE human being is created in the 
image and likeness of God. 
That statement alone if truly- 
realized and really accepted would solve the 
human problem, because it would adjust the 
man in perfect mathematical relation to the di- 
vine part of himself and so prove his unity 
with God. 

It would free you and me from untold con- 
fusion and anguish by relating us to our own 
responsibility* and proving to us most posi- 
tively that: 

We have no right to be sick. 

We have no right to be poor. 

We have no right to be sorrowful. 

And, mightier than all, it would free us from 
the agony of separation by the present form 
of death, because the glorious God of whom 
we are a part, in whom we live and move and 



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have our being, cannot die and we are created 
in the image and likeness of the imperishable 
and ever living God. 

The individual being made in the image of 
God has the divine attribute of will and the 
consequent power of selection; also the uni- 
verse is in process and the individual is in 
process; the individual is the microcosm of 
the universe and the universe is not yet per- 
fect, and in the journey toward ultimate com- 
pleteness there are many experiences. 

When the man forgets his responsibility to 
and in and with himself, he also forgets his 
relation to God and the allness of God — so 
he misdirects his divine power of being good 
and being complete which results in being 
healthy and happy — and in the misdirection 
of his goodness he causes an inaccuracy of 
action which results in a lack of good, and all 
lack of good causes pain on some plane of ex- 
pression, whether it be of the flesh or of supply 
or some other condition. 

All untruth to ourselves is unfaith toward 
God, and in our falsity to ourselves and our 



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faithlessness to God and to each other we 
cause more and more of separation, more and 
more of misunderstanding, until it seems to 
our human conception that the light of truth 
has gone out and that we are submerged in 
the anguish of unbelief. 

Every disease of the flesh is caused by some 
process of mental action which relates the 
thinker to the lack or to the reverse action of 
some divine force, and the healing of that form 
of disease must come from the plane of its 
expression. Fear thoughts attract to the 
thinker anything upon which he centers his 
attention; "the thing you fear will come upon 
you," and being the opposite pole of faith, 
Faith is the force to use in dissolving the 
confusion generated by Fear. 

In like manner diseases caused by hate 
and condemnation and all repelling forces 
must be dissolved by the applied force of its 
opposite pole of love, in creative action with 
faith, which render all destructive operation 
void; and it is so in all phases and forms of 
disease — they are healed by the same force in 



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constructive action which generated them in 
destructive action. 

Faith is a divine force — an attribute of 
God, as it were; it is an actual substance 
which proves its actualness whenever you 
formulate it in your mind and utilize your 
thought force in bringing it into action. 

Fear is the reverse activity of faith. They 
two are the same magnetic force in different 
rates of vibration, Faith being the force in 
the rapid action of good which vibrates co- 
operatively and coherently and construc- 
tively with God, and Fear being the same 
force in a negative vibration which discon- 
nects and disrupts and works destructively 
because of its lack of co-operation with good. 

You can only attract and assimilate thought 
forces which are of your own quality and you 
can only attract as much of the universal 
thought energy as you have the capacity to 
assimilate — otherwise you might attract by 
and through your own fear enough of de- 
structive energy to disintegrate your flesh 
form at once. 



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In all healing work the process must be on 
the plane of its own action: if you are using 
the material and medical process you will use 
material remedies ; if you are using the mental 
process you will use the mind forces; and if 
your process is purely spiritual you will use 
spiritual forces. 

But, whatever your process, your medium 
for action and consequent expression will be 
the mind, because you cannot think outside 
of mind — you cannot comprehend or live 
coherently apart from mind; it is the medium 
of all present consciousness of being and of 
action. 

Should you realize that you have devitalized 
and distorted your portion of God's life and 
are manifesting your life in pain or in poverty 
or grief, you may also realize that you have 
the divine right and the consequent power to 
reconstruct yourself and so balance yourself 
in your own accurate position in the universe. 

Opulent balanced life action relates us to 
God — the all good — and it is our privilege, 
yours and mine, to attract and to express the 



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opulence of God's great goodness on any and 
all planes of our being, and in order to do so 
we will learn to think coherently and form 
our own point of view, our own angle, con- 
cerning the things which relate to the mastery 
and the reconstruction of ourselves and our 
conditions. 

Too long has the individual forgotten his 
individuality and his unity with God; too 
long has he been a servant and a slave of 
opinion; and a thousand times too long has 
he lived his life from the vision of others and 
accepted disease and poverty in the dis- 
torted belief that it was the will of God; and 
he has actually worshiped a God who he 
believed had unjustly scourged and whom 
he fully expected to cast him into an after- 
death hell for pure revenge after he had held 
him for years in a present-day hell upon this 
fair earth home. 

Glory be to the oncoming, onrushing force 
of the mighty truth of God's allness! The 
present-day hell is dissolving fast, and the 
light of heaven is already enfolding the chil- 



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dren of the ever-living and all-powerful and, 
greater than all else, the ever-loving God. 

Every atom of substance, whether expressed 
or unexpressed, is spirit substance, and mind is 
the medium which, according to its vibratory 
force and the quality of the intention back of 
that force, produces all effect and all mani- 
festation from and of the great primal sub- 
stance and its active cause in mind. 

Thought is mind in action, therefore. 
Thought is the conscious formulated energy 
emanating from mind which is responsible 
for all human as well as all universal mani- 
festation — and as it is the human being we 
are studying to-day we will analyze a few ideas 
concerning human thought. 

Now this human being, created in the 
image and likeness of God, has in himself 
all of the universal possibility and all the 
divine attributes of the infinite intelligence 
and he will externalize all of Godness and 
master himself by knowing himself. 

And the man will know himself by desiring 
to know himself. 



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You and I have arrived at the point of our 
human progress where we desire to know our- 
selves, and first and foremost we are discover- 
ing that in order to know ourselves we must 
learn to think; that is, we must use our minds 
in coherent action; otherwise our part of 
the infinite mind may use us incoherently, 
because it is our responsibility, as we are part 
of the universal expression, to use our portion 
of life and intelligence according to our ca- 
pacity, which means according to the best 
we know, for responsibility is merely respond- 
ing to truth with the best of our human ability. 

With the intention to think coherently, to 
use our minds or rather our part of the in- 
finite mind according to our own desire and 
inspiration, we commence to realize something 
of our relation to the universe — in other 
words, the relation of the human to the divine 
and of the finite to the infinite — and then we 
perceive that thought is our material, and the 
part of it which we select is our capital for 
our entire life action; also that we may do 
what we will to do with our own capital. 



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In the studying of ourselves we naturally 
analyze ourselves, and in the analysis we 
recognize our power, and in that recognition 
our capacity increases and we find ourselves 
steadily and surely becoming masters of our 
thought, and in that vital mastery we are 
uplifting ourselves and consequently the entire 
race. 

All accomplishment comes, first, by attract- 
ing the thought energy with discrimination; 
second, by assimilating it in love; third, by 
wisely expending it. 

It rests entirely with you and me what 
quality of thought energy we will entertain; 
we naturally attract thoughts which are of 
our own quality, but we need not retain any 
form of the universal energy with which we 
have finished and for which we have no use. 

The man becomes what his thoughts repre- 
sent. If they are constructively relating and 
attaching him to the life current, his force 
is everlasting and his existence is eternal. If, 
on the contrary, his thoughts are destructive 
and therefore disintegrating, his soul has not 



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the necessary co-operation for its expression 
and dissolution on some plane, usually of the 
flesh form, results. 

Men may have as much as they will use 
and no more of the grand universal current of 
thought energy — and using means giving 
according to the best of our capacity in order 
that the capacity may strengthen to receive 
more and more of the opulence of the infinite 
love and wisdom. 

Every thought which is attracted and as- 
similated and sent out by the individual carries 
with it a suggestion, and whoever and what- 
ever is of its quality is on the line of that 
suggestion. 

Possibly some of you may remember that 
the epidemic of la grippe was introduced into 
America by a cablegram which was published 
in the newspapers, and, even when not pub- 
lished, epidemics of constructive conditions 
as well as destructive have manifested them- 
selves through mental suggestion. 

When the mind is not trained and the 
thinker is destructive in his consciousness, 



I&ttman Q$ta&txttmmt 13 

that is, when he is afraid or angry or other- 
wise confused, the thought has less power 
and is more easily dissolved, but the power of 
a thought formulated by a trained mind, and 
directed with the accuracy which belongs to 
the intelligent master of a trained mind, can- 
not be overestimated — not because of its 
present power, but because, being on an orderly 
and a constructive basis, it endures for always. 

Which is the reason that one constructive 
thinker is more powerful than thousands of 
destructive ones — verily the gates of hell 
cannot prevail against him. Were it not so, 
the planet itself would dissolve in the confu- 
sion of its myriads of destructive thinkers 
who, even now, in this supposedly enlightened 
time, are shrieking for each other's blood and 
are groveling and grafting and selling their 
souls for each other's possessions. 

Thoughts which are based upon falsity, 
such as fear and hate and condemnation, are 
not enduring; they perish by the weight of 
their own delusion and they are impotent in 
their falsity, because the life current is pure 



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and undying truth, and no thing and no force 
can long endure against its living accuracy. 

While truth in its entirety never changes 
and its principles are immune, each mind per- 
ceives it from a different angle and conse- 
quently each vision varies. 

Few people, however, have the courage to 
be sufficiently true to themselves to live from 
their own angle of vision; they have not yet 
become individual, and so when a man for- 
mulates a broader conception of truth than 
his fellow-men, it places him a trifle apart and 
others look askance and declare that such an 
intrusion of ideas beyond their own may 
mean change and better be suppressed. 

So for many ages has it been with the form 
of truth which deals with the spiritual heal- 
ing of the flesh form through the medium of 
the mind; there have always been, as there 
are now, those who have preferred to endure 
the anguish of flesh dissolution through the 
disease process rather than to accept a truth 
by and through an apparent mystery. 

And as the human creature is free, it is his 



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privilege to suffer and to die if he wants that 
experience — it is his divine right to select his 
part of the great spirit substance and equally 
his divine right to manipulate it and direct it 
in response to his own desire. 

Now we have decreed, you and I, that we 
will use our freedom by freeing ourselves and 
we cannot be free with our bodies in the 
bondage of pain and in harmony. So we are 
going to forgive and to forget all of our past 
suffering and discord and we shall stop our 
habit of thinking at random and allow other 
people's thoughts to control us; instead, we 
shall balance our own minds and so regulate 
our own thought energy. 

Therein lies the first step toward becom- 
ing spiritual in our flesh forms and of purify- 
ing every atom of them and healing every 
inequality that they may become whole in 
the consciousness of the wholeness or holiness 
of infinite life. 

The first conscious effort in the direction of 
mind mastery is the process of intelligently 
centering the thought force with formulated 



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intention; this process is ofttimes called con- 
centration or centering the thought, and in 
order to center the thought one must give 
it his undivided attention. 

The triangle of concentration is Attention, 
Contemplation, and Meditation. 

Attention steadies the mind and attracts 
the chosen thought; Contemplation fixes 
and establishes the thought in the mind and 
adjusts it to the present condition and 
requirement. 

Contemplation is upon the plane of reason; 
it argues and balances and adjusts, it analyzes 
and regulates and decides — then, having for- 
mulated a decision through its own balancing 
force, Meditation naturally follows and the 
student enters upon a plane of conscious and 
cosmic understanding which relates him to 
knowledge. 

The sort of knowledge which we are claim- 
ing to-day is that which gives us the ability 
to control our physical bodies and to relate 
them to perfect health, and the same quality 



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of knowledge enables us also to control our 
environment and our bank account, because 
the interpenetrating force of the finer forces 
of nature — the more spiritual force, as it 
were — brings balance in the all good to all 
which it may contact. 

These finer forces of nature, such as Faith 
and Love and Hope and Courage, etc., etc., 
operate upon the finite being through the 
medium of finite mind; so we will realize 
that our human or finite mind is a measured 
portion of the divine or infinite mind, in 
fact that it is the infinite mind expressing 
itself in finite form, wherein it is measured 
and limited or extended according to our 
capacity or, in more accurate wording, accord- 
ing to our conception of ourselves. 

Thus the human mind has the same attri- 
butes and the same privileges as the infinite 
mind, because it is a portion of that mind and 
its difference in power is only in the degree of 
its intentive force. 

In order to relate our finite minds to a 
comprehension of infinite mind, let us place 



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our thought upon the primal substance of 
spirit and then let us know that every atom 
in the universe is an intelligent atom and 
that whatever its present form, it is funda- 
mentally and primarily pure spirit substance. 

Following that idea, let us adjust our mind 
action, which is our thought, in direct line 
with the thought or the mind action of the 
infinite intelligence, with the awareness of our 
unity with it or, in other words, with the con- 
sciousness that we are one and a part of that 
intelligence in all of its activity, and that it is 
therefore, our responsibility to do our part, 
in the mental control and manipulation of 
the formless spirit substance in bringing it 
into the manifestation, through orderly energy, 
of orderly form. 

Nothing gives us a firmer grasp upon our 
own power than this clear vision of the infinite 
unity of universal life and consequently of our 
own part in and with it: therein we see our 
greatness, because we see the greatness of 
God and all that lives and moves and is of 
Him. 



l^ttman Sljjteasittttmntt 19 

Suppose we are not using our thought 
force intelligently — that is, suppose we are, 
through our own ignorance, which is merely 
ignoring the law of our own life, not doing 
our part in the constructive and orderly ad- 
justment of the universal manifestation and 
are, therefore, expressing destruction and dis- 
ease, shall we despair and grieve and feel 
that life here is over for us? 

No, indeed, unless we desire to leave the 
planet by such a destructive route. There 
is always the opportunity of a mighty recall; 
a recall of repentance which completely re- 
verses the forces of destruction and merges 
their activity in the constructive operation of 
God wherein we may, even with our finite 
consciousness, reconstruct and readjust and 
heal all that is in disorder and confused suffer- 
ing by and through our reconnection with 
God's mighty love and supreme wisdom. 

We do not make statements which cannot 
be definitely explained and positively proven, 
and we have said and are proving it factual 
that there is a method and a process for every 



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accomplishment on every plane of life con- 
cerning which we have the capacity to for- 
mulate thought. Also it is true that no 
demand can be made upon us which we have 
not made possible by our desire, and the 
process may always be discovered through the 
understanding of the desire. 

Many times it appears that we are not quite 
equal to the thing we have assumed, that our 
burden is greater than we, and that we shall 
be submerged under its great weight. 

It is not true. The fact that we assumed 
it proves positively that we desired it, and 
that it remains with us is a definite assur- 
ance that its quality is of our own or it could 
not remain. 

When we grow greater than our problem, 
stronger than our burden through the great- 
ness of our wisdom and the strength of our 
love, all of confusion will utterly dissolve, 
because in the dynamic action of love and 
wisdom in co-operation no thing destructive 
can possibly endure. 

Thinking constructively means thinking 



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always the uplifting thought concerning your- 
self and everybody else; it means realizing 
the love nature and the love quality of every 
living creature; it means knowing that every- 
thing manifest is of God whether or not its 
immediate expression is Godlike. 

Thinking constructively is not thinking spas- 
modically, with a love thought one moment 
and a fear thought the next — with a thought 
of hope and divine intention to-day and a 
fall into despair to-morrow: that process of 
mind action is most confusing, because, being 
uncertain, the result is unexpected and un- 
equal to the mental atmospheric conditions 
and conflict is sure to follow. 

In the recognition and the realization of 
the good and only the good in all of intelli- 
gent action, you have the appreciation and 
respect of yourself, which is a most potent 
healing force; indeed very much of disease 
is caused by regret and self-condemnation — 
and you also have a spiritual stimulant for 
all of your life's intention. And really it 
matters very little what are the opinions of 



22 ^tttttan Q®ta0\xttmmt 

other people concerning you so long as you 
have your own love and appreciation for 
yourself — but that is absolutely essential if 
you would be true to yourself and if you in- 
tend to accomplish your part toward the 
completeness of the planet you have selected 
for your present abiding place. 

And one vital part of your work upon this 
earth home is that you adjust your physical 
flesh form in complete and balanced expres- 
sion here and now. 

You may have been told that you are con- 
trolled by the planets — indeed some systems 
of philosophy are bounded north, east, south, 
and west by the belief in Zodiacal limitations; 
they evidently do not perceive that the crea- 
ture that is made in the image of God is far 
greater than any such, or indeed any limita- 
tion, because the finite mind being a measured 
portion of the infinite mind is of universal 
or cosmic quality and can dominate and sweep 
infinite and cosmic realms instead of being 
ruled by the conditions of one little solar 
system. 



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Naturally so long as we make it our abiding 
place, we are more or less influenced by the 
conditions of this solar system, just as we are 
influenced by the climatic conditions of the 
earth while we are breathing its atmosphere. 

When we know the truth of a fact or a con- 
dition — not only believe it but actually 
know it — we also know how to meet it and, 
if necessary, how to overcome it. When it is 
cold to the point of discomfort, we are suffi- 
ciently wise to create heat. Likewise we are 
great enough to ride the waters and to bend 
their mighty power to our service, also to 
utilize the forces of the fire and the earth and 
the air in response to our human desire and 
intention. 

Therefore, shall we, you and I, allow these 
finer forces of life to turn upon us and rend 
us, as it were, when we have within us all 
that is greater than they and when we can 
bend them to our intention and utililize them 
for our ever-increasing strength and glory? 

Verily nothing can intrude upon us and 
nothing can glorify us but ourselves. 



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We have decreed that we shall manifest 
health and opulence on each and every plane 
of our being; so we will immediately com- 
mence to think opulently. We will think con- 
cerning the fullness in consciousness that 
there is such mighty abundance in the uni- 
verse that it is more than equal for all the 
life forms within it — more than all the human 
claim which can possibly be made upon it; 
there is always the supply to meet every de- 
mand, and if we strengthen our demand, 
naturally the supply strengthens and increases 
in abundance. 

Abundance of health — such marvelous 
abundance. 

Freedom and fullness in and of every re- 
quirement conceivable to the human mind. 

We glory in the treasures in our Father's 
house, in our home; we glory in the many 
mansions, in our especial mansion; and we 
claim our birthright of health and of pros- 
perity, of beauty and of joy. 

Do you think any sort of poverty — of the 
body or the mind or the purse — can long 



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exist in an atmosphere created by such a 
vitalized dynamic thought as that? 

Hold fast to the idea of your own greatness 
— it is such a marvelous tonic — and cling 
with the faith of eternity to God's greatness 
that no lesser thought may come between 
you and your faith in yourself. 

You will find the mantrims below of value 
in flesh healing — their cadence is such that 
they interpenetrate with dynamic accuracy. 

Memorize them — commit them to con- 
sciousness and you will perceive their effect 
when you need the surcharge of a positive 
reconstructive energy. 

There are several here given, because dif- 
ferent conditions may demand a different 
tone, and there are many conditions and many 
tones. 

And remember always and always, what- 
ever the need, whatever the response, there 
is only good, for God is all and there is noth- 
ing else beside. 

The light of God's love shineth forever. 

Its radiance is as the encircling glory of a 



26 ^urnan 9®ta&uztmmt 

mighty sun which dissolves the night shadows 
and reveals the oncoming day. 

Behold, I place myself within its rising glow 
and I breathe its flaming energy in and through 
every atom of my flesh form. 

I am ashine with the light of truth. 

I am aflame with the glow of health. 

I am enriched with divine abundance. 

I am free in the knowledge that I am at- 
one with God. 

My body is the temple of my soul: it shall 
be clean. 

My body is the externalization of my 
thought: it shall be whole. 

My body is the manifestation of my inten- 
tion: it shall be beautiful. 

For my flesh is to my mind as the clay in 
the artist's hand; it reflects the genius and the 
love of me. 

Come, Lord of life, let thy glory enfold 
this, our earth home, that the black night of 
disease may dissolve from this fair realm and 
that sin and death may be no more. 



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Come, gracious Father, and fill the flesh of 
man with the radiance of thy truth, that life 
itself may reign supreme and that mankind 
may be free to serve Thee and only Thee. 

Verily the fullness of the earth is God, for 
all goodness is of Him. 

The love of God is the heart of wisdom, and 
in His love and wisdom is knowledge, the all- 
knowledge of Being and action, the mighty 
knowledge which passeth all understanding. 

Know thyself in Him, O man, and know- 
ing thyself thou shalt be whole in His holy 
name. 

The light shineth ever. 

The light dissolves all of darkness. 

The light reveals, ay, it is the presence of 
the ever-living God, and in His presence there 
is perfect health and perfect joy. 

Arise, O Man, and declare for thine own 
path in freedom, that it may lead thee to the 
light of God's presence, which absolves thee 
from all pain and all woe. 



28 ^ttman S^eagmwmmt 

Love is the joy of the world. 

Love heals the sick and strengthens the 
weary. 

Love frees the grief burdened; love endureth 
forever. 

Love is all and gives all yet love, true love, 
makes no claim; it is greater than all claim 
and beyond all limitation. 

In the beginning was God — 

Now is God. 

In the future shall be God. 

For He is all 

And there is naught beside. 



STUDY OF COMMON SENSE 
SPIRITUALITY 



/ have learned that when I am kind to life that life is kind 

to me. 
J have learned that the responsibility of my part of life 

is to give all that I have and all that I am and all that 

I know, freely and unreservedly to those who need it, 

with no thought of result and no expectation of 

reward. 
I have learned that when I do the very best I know at all 

times and in all ways that the greatest things I am 

capable of knowing are added unto me. 
I have learned these facts by accepting the privilege of my 

human individuality and using my common sense. 




§tuDp of Common Sense Spirituality 

The thing that divides is satanic, 
The thing that unites is divine. 
The thought that decrees is dynamic. 
The force that creates is sublime. 

UMANITY is composed of many 
human beings who are working in 
togetherness for the common com- 
pleteness of the whole race. 

God is made manifest in humanity through 
the good in the common activity of that 
humanity. 

Common sense applies spiritual balance to 
the natural things of everyday life; it is, as 
it were, the voice of one crying in our human 
wilderness preparing us to meet the law of 
our human life in love and in wisdom. 

Common sense gives a polarized and there- 
fore intelligent vision whereby the soul can 
operate through its bodily instrument for the 
all-good in its earth manifestation and so 
prepare for its life and work in other realms. 



32 Common &ntge &pititwlitv 

We are here upon the earth home, living its 
common everyday experiences, because we 
require just this place and just these experi- 
ences, for our own good, which means for our 
own relinquishment of self and our conse- 
quent revealment of God. 

Not one of us differs greatly from the other 
— we are all manifesting in clay bodies be- 
cause we have all selected the clay planet for 
our present abiding place, and we could not 
vibrate in its key where we not of its texture 
and equipped for its life expression and thereby 
enabled to breathe its atmosphere. 

Common sense relates us to our humanly 
intelligent as well as to our divinely intelli- 
gent requirement; it inspires us to adjust 
ourselves to and with our claims and their 
responsibilities both here and in the beyond 
phases of our lives and to recognize our neces- 
sities both of the flesh and of the spirit, that 
they may be fulfilled. 

Our clay bodies are well equipped, in fact 
much better equipped than most of us real- 
ize; we only know of five senses, but there are 



Common &m$t &turitttalttp 33 

many times five senses in these flesh forms 
and we shall soon awaken to perceive them, 
As a race we are awakening to the sense of 
intuition which forms an immediate connec- 
tion between the human and the divine of 
us and as individuals we are commencing to 
realize and recognize it and so strengthen it, 
but we are so closely related that we must 
all awaken before the individual can really be 
aware of the truth of his God power. 

While jealousy runs riot in one human 
mind, all humanity suffers therefrom. 

While legalized murder sweeps part of the 
earth and mows down many of God's images 
in ignorant frenzy, all men shall suffer — 
otherwise they would not be as one in infinite 
life and love. 

And we are commonly one in our humanity 
as we are children of the divine household of 
our Father in Heaven and one in His home. 

In the ordinary terminology common sense 
is supposed to apply to those things known 
as material but the material things, the 
every-day essences and activities of our lives 



34 Common &m&t Spirituality 

are quite as spiritual as other forces yet 
untouched and therefore called mysterious. 

Common sense dissolves mystery by relat- 
ing it to reason. 

The finer forces of life interpenetrate the 
coarser, thereby refining the whole, and these 
common activities of daily living need to be 
interpenetrated by the finer, but quite as 
common, forces in nature in order that they 
may more accurately balance in the doing of 
their perfect work. 

The human creature causes some vast mis- 
happenings by his misconception of relation- 
ship; he needs to bring God into his daily 
commonplace expression, he needs the divine 
association in his eating and in his sleeping, 
in his living and in his dying — he needs to 
know daily and hourly the commonplace 
fact of the presence of the ever-living, ever- 
loving God, and his common sense will reveal 
to him that only in that divine intimacy will 
his humanity become aware of its pure good- 
ness. 

There is no problem in Life's vast variety 



Common &engse &pttttttalttp 35 

which may not be met and solved in the light 
of a spiritual vision balanced by common sense; 
one need not be limited ever so slightly if he 
will use his common sense in everything that 
he does and says. 

The claim of growing beyond human re- 
quirement and earthly method belongs to the 
early stages of fanaticism and is entirely apart 
from common sense and its balanced reason; 
indeed, if a soul had grown beyond human 
need while yet upon the earth planet, he 
would have common sense enough not to 
mention it. 

The great limitation of the human race is 
fear; men are afraid of each other because 
they are afraid of themselves, and in their 
fear emotion they demagnetize their bodies 
and every condition which concerns their part 
of life. 

Common sense comes to the rescue and says 
there is absolutely nothing to fear; in its 
balanced light you see that by being afraid 
you attract the mighty destroyer, emotion, 
upon you, and it proves to you that emotion 



36 Common &ntge Spirituality 

is a most confusing force which acts as a blur 
and a blight upon every thought form which 
it touches. 

Emotion feeds upon disaster and thrives 
upon grief, and it is quite time that the human 
creature steadies his mind and balances him- 
self in a common sense spirituality wherein he 
can abide and strengthen his capacity for 
attracting and assimilating the infinite good 
which he claims. 

Life is not a joke and we are not here only 
to have fun — we are here to bring our part 
of life to the highest form of its expression 
which we have selected and which we have 
the capacity to meet, and it is our privilege, 
which is but another word for duty, to con- 
stantly and consistently strengthen our capa- 
city. 

Naturally we shall create harmony by so 
doing and happiness will result, but happiness 
is not hysterical fun — neither is it resultant 
from emotion of any kind; it is consistent 
and enduring harmony made manifest in daily 
living. 



Common &ntge fepttttttaltt? 37 

When humanity commences to use its com- 
mon sense, it will recognize its individuality, 
and there is no vitalized accomplishment 
until the man realizes his power by realizing 
his individuality. 

In the vast unity of the human race, each 
atom must stand out accurately as a vitalized 
unit so that the whole may be perfect and so 
unified, and in order to become so polarized 
we must know that every other soul has as 
definite a place and as important a work as 
we. 

Therefore we will agree in our intention to 
know God and we will glorify our introspec- 
tive vision by viewing our brother's part of 
life from his angle of vision. Nothing will so 
equalize our own life action as to recognize 
every other human creature as equal with us 
and as worthy of the same privileges which 
we claim for ourselves. 

Most people think entirely from their own 
angle, and it is too often a limited and nar- 
row line of vision, not extending out of their 
immediate circle; when they commence to 



38 Common &en0e Spirituality 

glimpse a realm beyond their* own, they are 
quite likely to feel the impulse to investigate 
the farther glimpse, and when they do investi- 
gate and breathe the broader atmosphere, as 
it were, their cosmic unfoldment has com- 
menced. 

It is then that the human creature 
needs his common sense; he wants to 
grow, and mayhap he has not yet dis- 
covered that growth is not a comfortable 
process and that the entrance to any new 
realm causes suffering and travail until we 
have grown so universally conscious that 
we are unified with all realms; possibly 
then the man resents the discomfort of the 
process which leads him to the thing he 
has claimed, and resentment may darken 
his way and retard his journey toward his 
Father's home, which is the universal and 
infinite realm. 

No other soul can live for us, and no other 
soul can die for us, but we can all inspire each 
other to take the step in consciousness which 
will render us each greater than the problem 



Common &m&t Spirituality 39 

we have undertaken to solve and make us 
equal to the mastery of our own part of God's 
great life. 

Some day soon, please heaven, all this wo- 
ful misunderstanding with its agonizing result 
shall pass away; men will look into each 
other's eyes and see the God therein, and in 
that divinely glorified vision we shall know 
each other as we are, without the crust of 
delusion and the heartache of fear; we shall 
know that each man and each woman is just 
exactly what the person who loves him and 
her best believes them to be, and we shall 
trust each other in the consciousness of that 
satisfying truth which is the evidence of God 
because it results from the sure knowledge of 
good. 

No matter how enigmatical a statement 
may appear, just analyze it in the light of 
your common sense, and you will soon know 
whether or not it is worthy of your concen- 
tration and so qualify your flesh atoms with 
it — for common sense is the universal rea- 
soner; it sifts the wheat from the chaff and 



40 Common &mstt Spirituality 

actually relates the human creature to his 
own part of life. 

Herein I give you a few statements for 
study and practise. 

Do not accept them because I have found 
them useful; the thing which may be a defi- 
nite power for my polarization may not be- 
long to you at all. 

It is for you to turn the light into your 
own consciousness, decide for your own good, 
and let no human opinion swerve you from 
that which you know is your own. 

To-day is the day of my salvation, 

To-day I claim that I am love. 

I am one with all love, and the light of love 
is wisdom. 

Love gives thanks that this is the day of 
salvation. 

Love knows that humanity is free from sin, 
sickness, sorrow, poverty, and death. 

Love is waiting to enfold every living crea- 
ture who will accept its glorifying radiance. 

Love makes no demand; it only knows its 
own. Love asks no favors; it only seeks to 



Common &twt Spirituality 41 

be, — for in love's being all is given and re- 
ceived, and in love's freedom all life's gracious 
gifts are unreserved. 

Love is the most practical of nature's finer 
forces, because it is all-inclusive and all- 
harmonious with every quality of good: it 
vibrates in the key of good, so it becomes 
all-attractive to the good things of life, 
and success on every plane breathes in its 
atmosphere. 

The man who loves his work is he who 
succeeds. 

The woman who loves her home glorifies 
it, and her husband is not interested in the 
news of the divorce court. 

One might continue indefinitely to cite 
cases of the practical effect of love in its 
everyday common sense activity because 
health and happiness and riches and every 
condition that makes life worth while abide 
in its atmosphere. 

Let us sing the song of that everyday 
common sense love which simply is because 
we open our hearts to admit it, and so it enters 



42 Common &enjse Spirituality 

into our flesh forms, rendering us a glorified 
expression of life. 

In the shine of the love light all that seems 
distorted is made plain. 

And the darkness melts into day. 

The accurate process of living is the sim- 
plest and the most natural, and there is no 
escaping the fact that we cannot swerve from 
the accurate angle of expression and not suffer: 
that is why it is the common sense process to 
open our hearts to love because love is natu- 
ral and accurate, knowing no evil and con- 
sequently attracting no pain. 

When we lessen our ability to naturally 
love, we also lessen our power to accurately 
live, and thereby we place the joys of life 
farther and farther away from our part of 
life and misunderstanding follows, and in 
the misdirection of forces which follow the 
shadows perplexingly fall. 

It is common sense to live because you 
love to live. 

It is common sense to work because you 
love to work and to play because you love to 



Common &ntge Spirituality 43 

play, for the reason that your life and your 
work and your play are only successful in 
the love vibration. 

It is common sense to pray to your heavenly 
Father that you may abide in togetherness 
with Him where life itself becomes one glori- 
ous revelation of His love. 



Father of all that lives and moves, 
Father of all that feels and knows, 
Manifestor of stars and suns, 
Creator of worlds and worlds; 
I AM Thy child, 
Heart of Thy heart, 
Mind of Thy mind, 
Soul of Thy soul, 
Breath of Thy breath 
And one with Thy life. 

Can you not see in the blowing breeze, 
In the dancing leaves on their parent trees, 
In the blossoming bud all blushing and sweet 
As it opens its heart the sunlight to greet, 
The handiwork oj God? 



44 Common feensfe Spirituality 

Can you not feel in the silent sweep 

Of nature's awaking from ages of sleep, 

In the wonderful reach toward infinite things 

And the answer to needs which each day brings, 

That He is aware? 

Do you not know that the vivid gleam 
Enfolding the earth with its radiant beam, 
Filling with love all pulsing life, 
Freeing mankind from its fear and its strife, 
Is God's own truth? 

Oh, marvelous Truth of infinite power, 
Rising supreme each day and each hour, 
No life can endure apart from Thee, 
No love can exist that is not free 
In Thy great name. 



STUDY CONCERNING THOUGHT 



" Think," said the Lord of Heaven 
To the waking, breathing spark, 
THINK thyself into living, 
THINK thyself into loving, 
THINK thyself into God's light! 
And out of the creeping dark. 




§>tuDp Concerning Cfiougfjt 

HOUGHT is the conscious, formu- 
lated motive energy of the primal 
substance. 

Thought invariably precedes action, being 
the intentive force of all action and all mani- 
festation. 

The formation of thought force and its 
resultant activity is based upon a principle 
which is as factual as mathematical law, and 
there is no compromise with mathematical 
law, so truth, which is the accurate action of 
the law and the evidence of good, is the 
thought manifestation of a definite principle 
which must stand every possible test of rea- 
son and analysis. 

A philosophy to have endurance is founded 
upon truth, and must follow in its develop- 
ment the principles of this truth law; other- 
wise it cannot be constructive in its teaching 
and influence, because there can be no chaotic 



48 fetttUg Concmuna; ^otiffSt 

imaginings and no weird calculations in a 
process of thought which is based upon the 
life principle of enduring truth. 

Thought does not relate alone to human 
mental action. 

Thought is the universal current of con- 
sciousness, and so it is a universal force per- 
taining to the universal and infinite mind. 

Thought becomes a human expression of 
consciousness in degree as the human being 
responds and relates himself to universal 
consciousness. 

As the human creature becomes more and 
more aware of his relation to the universe — 
in other words, of the relation of the human 
to the divine — he commences to interpret 
this thought force and to realize that it is his 
capital for his entire life action and that he 
may do what we wills to do with this wonder- 
ful and unlimited material. 

When the man perceives his power in and 
of thinking, he then commences to study 
himself, and the more he analyzes himself 
from his own life angle, the more he realizes 



&tutip Concerning 'flD&ottff&t 49 

that there is a mighty force within himself 
which is the living motive energy in his life 
action. 

Recognition of ability means a strengthen- 
ing capacity for all of life's operations, and it 
rests with the man whether he will recognize 
and appreciate himself and so become a power 
for good for himself and for his race or whether 
he will ignore his opportunity and fail to use 
his divine ability. 

The human creature is not a creation of 
circumstance; rather he is a creation of his 
own intention and his own love desire in 
using that intention. 

There is one universal current of mind 
action which produces what we call thought 
energy, and men may have as much of that 
thought energy as they will use and no more, 
and using means giving to life according to 
their individual capacity in order that their 
capacity may strengthen and enable them 
to receive more. 

All accomplishment comes first by recog- 
nizing the thought energy, second by attract- 



50 &ttt&? €ontttnins Whtmyfot 

ing it, third by assimilating it, and fourth by 
wisely expending it. 

To be sure, very few of us comprehend the 
process of our unfoldment until we are on a 
conscious plane of evolution, but the process 
is there whether we are aware of it or not. 

The rose blooms in all its glory through and 
by its own power of externalizing the thought 
energy which it has attracted and assimilated 
and used according to its strength and its 
quality, but it is not conscious of its process 
any more than is the bird aware of the mar- 
velous intelligence which enables it to fly. 

The human creature, however, is the micro- 
cosm of the universe; he has evolved to the 
place where he is made in the image of God, 
body, mind, and soul; he is a part of that in- 
finite intelligence through which he lives and 
moves and has his being; he has the divine 
attributes and he may think in the universal 
key whenever he so decrees. 

The phase of thought energy with which 
the human being must deal is that of individ- 
ual thought control, because it rests entirely 



&ttt&g €onttinin$ C&ottsfjt 51 

with the man what quality of thought energy- 
he will entertain. He naturally attracts 
thoughts which are responsive to his own 
quality, but he need not retain or entertain any 
form of the universal energy which is not 
responsive to his will. 

Every thought formulated by the will and 
sent out from the individual mind is a sug- 
gestion of some sort; even if not directed 
toward any special person, it may seriously 
affect some one who has not yet learned the 
law of mental self-protection and who is es- 
pecially sensitive to that quality of thought. 

The power of a thought formulated by a 
trained mind and directed with the accuracy 
and intelligence of that mind is most dynamic, 
not only because of its immediate strength, 
but because its intentive force endures forever. 

The man becomes the thing concerning 
which he thinks and which he thereby breathes 
into himself; he may be whatever he desires 
to be, he may live the life he selects, he may 
have what his love demands — if he will only 
be true to the God of himself and think good. 



52 fetttUp Contetnmff CSotisSt 

All thinking which is built upon negative or 
destructive lines, such as fear, condemnation, 
resentment, or any other disorderly formula- 
tion, does not endure, because the life cur- 
rent moves in exact accordance with the 
law which is the mathematical activity of 
its motion. 

Therefore the life current is truth itself in 
its action, and nothing can prevail against 
it; any attempt to do so always results in 
disorders of flesh or mind or purse. 

Men in their present limited consciousness 
do not readily respond to a different or newer 
expression of thought; it requires mental 
effort to change one's viewpoint; it might 
change one's relation to life, and few human 
creatures are willing to think for themselves; 
it is much easier to have some one else solve 
their problems and to go along life's pathway 
in the same rut other rut-lovers have trod, 
and so they prefer the vicarious method, not 
even permitting themselves to think seriously 
concerning it or they would realize that it is 
utterly impractical. 



&tttbp Concetnfng C&ottn&i 53 

Each soul must think for himself and solve 
his own problems of life and death or they 
will not be solved. 

Truth, being the result of mathematical 
action of the life energy, has an infinite variety 
of expression; each externalized form, each 
life manifestation, results from the truth 
thought of an infinite intelligence. 

Every and each human mind, from the angle 
of its position and according to its relation 
with this infinite intelligence, sees life and 
truth from its viewpoint, and each vision 
naturally varies. It has happened that some 
of the earth children have insisted that other 
of the earth children think from their angle 
of vision, and they who were strongest com- 
pelled, and so we have slaves and tyrants on 
many planes of our life manifestation. 

When a man takes a step in advance of his 
fellows by formulating a broader idea of truth 
or any of its myriads of attributes, it places 
him somewhat apart from them in conscious- 
ness, and sometimes they feel uncomfortable 
about such an intrusion of advancing thought 



54 &ttt&p Conttotutff ^ougSt 

and demand that he and his new idea shall 
be suppressed. 

It is not long since Mesmer, with his giant 
mind, undertook to prove by actual illustra- 
tion of fact that he had discovered a method 
of controlling thought energy and of utiliz- 
ing that energy. Certain people declared that 
he was crazy, and even now the term "mes- 
merism," and its accompanying word "hypno- 
tism," is spoken by many with almost a feeling 
of dread. 

And yet the force applied in the simplest 
of life regulations is frequently the same 
force which, if labeled correctly, would be 
called hypnotism. We hypnotize ourselves 
when we put ourselves to sleep. The 
mother hypnotizes her child when she sug- 
gests and controls by her mental suggestion 
his action. 

In the business world, men do not engage 
in a hand-to-hand encounter; it is a thought- 
to-thought encounter, and, with mind pitted 
against mind, men meet and greet and part 
and meet again, and the master mind, the 



&ttt&# Cancemtno; ^fioagSt 55 

one which thinks more rapidly, wins in 
each encounter. 

If men were conscious of the process of 
their mind action they would be masters of it. 

If men were masters of their mind action, 
they would know how to think. 

If men knew how to think, they would con- 
trol their bodies and their life conditions, and 
there could be no lack of physical or financial 
strength. 

The fact is that it is stupid to live a life of 
negative intention — in other words, to be 
resigned to poverty on any plane, and most 
people accept conditions negatively; they do 
not retain or use the thoughts they attract, 
otherwise the world would not be in the throes 
of despair as it is to-day. 

The world needs thinkers, people who dare 
to view life from their angle in the universe 
and who have the strength to live their part 
of the universal life in the line of their vision 
of truth. 

Such people, those who are true to them- 
selves and their convictions, are always true 



56 Sttt&p Concmtinff ^Tfiouff&t 

to every other earth creature, because the 
soul who lives in his own truth angle knows 
that he and all of God's creatures are one in 
their interest and their work of the earth life 
expression. 

The finite mind, being a measured portion 
of the infinite mind, is measured and limited 
according to the individual capacity, or it 
might be more accurate to say according to 
the man's conception of himself. 

Therefore the human mind differs from the 
universal mind only in degree; it has the same 
attributes, the same privileges, and is of the 
same quality. 

The human mind has the divine capacity 
of development, and when it understands that 
it has the power of mastering its thought ac- 
tion and consequently its life externalization, 
the development of the individual becomes 
certain and rapid. 

When men know this truth of themselves 
and thereby the truth of each other, they 
will not be divided against each other, because 



&tttdp Concerning ^ouff&t 57 

they will know that such division means the 
destruction of flesh and strength and love. 

The song of ages is that men become ex- 
actly what they think, and had it not been 
true the song would have died out long ago; 
all philosophers, all teachers, and indeed all 
thinkers have so proclaimed, and yet we see 
on every hand withering flesh, distorted homes, 
poverty and its accompanying anguish, all 
because men are too indolent to think them- 
selves into life and freedom. 

A man cannot think concerning anything 
which is not in and of himself; if he thinks con- 
cerning God, it is because there is good in 
himself; if he forgets to think of God, he is 
weakening the real of himself and making 
the way plain for disorder to possess him. 

The broader and freer the individual 
thought becomes, the greater and more good 
becomes the individual; he is on the true road 
toward universal consciousness when he al- 
lows himself to think universally and not 
limit himself to a small corner of his own finite 
realm. 



58 Situbp Concetmno; ^SouoDt 

When the soul assumes the responsibility 
of its humanity, it also assumes the responsi- 
bility of glorifying that humanity and render- 
ing it worthy of its divine relationship. 

Consequently, human creatures have no 
right to use their part of the thought energy 
in destruction, and when they do, in their own 
flesh is made manifest any violation of God's 
law. 

So long as men believe that they cannot 
control their thoughts or that they must think 
what other people have thought and found 
suitable for them, so long they will be unable 
to control their life conditions. 

It is for the individual to think what he 
wills to think, and then he will do what he 
intends to do. 

It is wise, it is practical, indeed it is essen- 
tial, that we always think good of ourselves; 
in the first place, it is the only way we can 
think good of other folks; also it relates the 
atoms of our flesh body to strength, because 
we breathe into our flesh the thoughts which 
we select to entertain. 



&ttt&2 Concerning ^Jottg&t 59 

Sometimes we select to entertain thoughts 
which act like a great stupefying force and 
which result in arrested development on cer- 
tain planes of our life externalization; then we 
have an unequal or unbalanced condition 
which is not strengthening to our health either 
of body or of purse. 

Men are, in truth, always good, but they do 
not always know it, and not knowing it they 
have not the power to think their goodness 
into themselves. 

There are many voices crying in the wilder- 
ness, many souls suffering from the ache of 
their hearts and, perhaps, from the awful- 
ness of sickness and poverty and from the 
thing which men call sin. 

Verily, they know that the prophet is at 
hand, but they scarcely dare think of the new 
prophet, which is a mighty principle of life, 
when there are so many personal prophets 
encrusted by opinion and forced upon their 
attention. 

God help and bless them, few people yet 
know that the light is always shining which 



60 &ttt&p Concerning ^fjottg&t 

utterly dissolves the crust of misery which 
humanity has been accumulating for so many 
ages. 

And blessed souls, how can they understand, 
when they will not think, that they them- 
selves darken its shine by their own super- 
stition? 

O man, can you not see that it is easy to 
enter into the light of truth in freedom by 
realizing the God of yourself? 

Your concern is with and for yourself; it 
is not for you to think for your fellow-man 
until you have thought yourself into love for 
him. 

It is time to think concerning God and his 
great goodness, that our love shall be unwaver- 
ing and that we may dissolve every condition 
of confusion which overshadows the world. 



STUDY CONCERNING FREEDOM 



My blessed Lord, 

I know that thou and I are one, 

Then why despair — 

Beloved Truth, 

All life apart from thee I shun 

And I declare — 

That I am free in Truth's own name, 
That life is mine to hold and claim, 
That I shall work with highest aim 
For God's great Truth 
In Freedom's name. 




©tttDp Concerning jFteeDom 

> O word of human tongues is so mis- 
understood as the word "freedom." 
No force of all the finer forces of 
nature is more incomprehensible to men than 
the force of freedom. 

Of all the God gifts, men most desire what 
they call freedom, when in truth it is the one 
thing they utterly refuse to allow entrance 
into their mental realm. 

The man prays for freedom; he longs for 
his idea of freedom because the thing men call 
freedom is to do as they please from the nar- 
row angle of their earth vision, and too often 
it is merely the limited glimpse of their earth 
desire. 

Suppose we analyze this evanescent, chaste 
force of freedom. Let us use our spiritual 
Calculus and see if we can relate ourselves to 
its clear potent energy and perhaps compre- 
hend in some degree its truth quality. 



64 fettt&p Concerning; iFteetiom 

Truth is always the evidence of good, and 
it represents the balance action of all of the 
finer forces of nature. 

Truth only operates in freedom, which is the 
accurate principle underlying its expression. 

Freedom is the finest of the finer forces of 
nature, being essential to them all as it is co- 
operative and interpenetrative with truth. 

Therefore men do not come into truth con- 
sciousness on any plane until they are free 
on that plane, because bondage on any plane 
limits the action thereon. 

All intelligent action is free. 

Freedom is entirely constructive. Any ac- 
tion which ignores the supreme law of good- 
ness is ignorance, and there is no suggestion of 
freedom on any plane of thought and action 
which ignores the law. 

All of the apparent evils of the earth planet 
are the result of expressed ignorance. 

Men have lived in the thought that a per- 
version of truth means freedom, not realiz- 
ing that any defiance of truth places them in 
most appalling bondage. 



&ttt&p Concerning iFtw&om 6$ 

Even now, when the race is developing some 
degree of intelligence, human beings seem to 
imagine that lawlessness and licentiousness 
and a desecration of holy things mean free- 
dom and that they are expressing freedom by 
ignoring duties which they have claimed and 
assumed as their own. 

The human race is yet in its infant con- 
sciousness; it creates its own delusion, and as 
the babe plays with its toys and centers its in- 
terest on its dolls and tin soldiers, so does the 
human creature play with its conventions and 
its fashions and centers its interest in its 
troubles and its misunderstandings and en- 
joys its poor health, until it winds itself up in 
a web of bondage and perishes trying to get 
out of the bondage it has created. 

And the human creature hugs itself and 
holds on tight to its own delusion; it loves 
its own limitation and it likes to play on its 
own wee sand pile, conceiving no greater free- 
dom than to riotously romp thereon and to 
throw sand on those who are not quite so 
near to the top of the pile as they. 



66 &ttrtp Concerning; Jteedom 

Every man has the attributes of freedom; 
he can think and he can act, he can love and 
he can learn, he can sow and he can reap, 
he can direct his own life action, and what 
Paul says or what the king does has nothing 
whatever to do with you or with me. 

But we do not always know that we can 
think and we can do as seems wise to ourselves. 
We have been in thraldom so long that we 
have almost disintegrated in the dark of our 
dungeon of fear in our dread of somebody's 
or perhaps of many people's judgment. 

The free man is conscious; he is awake to 
the divine word. 

The bondman is unconscious; he environs 
himself with fear, and the word of truth does 
not penetrate his understanding. 

One spark of God consciousness is more 
vitally important for human development 
and does more to uplift the race than 
barrels of bromidic platitudes and volumes 
of mentalized memories and indefinite 
plagiarism. 

The earth planet has reached a plane be- 



fe>ttt&p Concerning jFteeaom 67 

yond mere reason; it is entering the realm 
of consciousness. 

When the race is freed from any form of 
limitation, the earth enters upon a higher or 
more rapid era of its evolution, because the 
intelligent earth responds to the finest thought 
energy of its children. 

And it is necessary that the earth be freed 
from every bondage which holds it before it 
can express at a more vitalized point; there- 
fore when it is time for a great upliftment of 
humanity, there is always the sweeping off 
the earth those conditions and those people 
who would hold it in the darkness and the 
delusion of slavery. 

Just as we see to-day, the earth must be 
freed from monarchism and militarism before 
it can enter into a new dimension of con- 
sciousness, and it will grovel in blood and woe 
until the race frees itself from the dreadful 
injustice which gives one man or a few men 
control of millions, perhaps more worthy of 
their brothers. 

The earth planet and each and every one 



68 &tttDp Concerning jFttt&om 

of the suns and planets in the universe is 
intelligent and co-operative with the whole. 

Every externalized atom is a form of ex- 
pressed intelligent life, each one working from 
his angle for the God manifestation of the 
universe. 

So long as the atom works from its angle 
in freedom, so long does it work in construc- 
tion and in love and co-operative with the 
whole; when it is related to that which binds 
and destroys and compels in other directions 
than that which belongs to its intentive de- 
sire, it then does not do its perfect work. 

Each atom works with every other atom 
for the good of the whole; freedom does not 
mean separation. The natural law of selec- 
tion and its accompanying process of refin- 
ing is the law of progress, just as human beings 
always succeed when they work with clean 
hands and a pure heart, which means an ac- 
curate motive in and for the thing they love. 

Human beings are the only creatures which 
personalize God and defy the mighty forces 
of His universe, and while they get well 



&ttt6p Concerning; jFwebam 69 

thrashed for so doing and accumulate about 
them and in them all the destructive condi- 
tions which bind them to sorrow, they still 
persist in their insane practises against the 
finer forces of nature and then wonder at the 
chaos of disease and death which rages around 
them. 

And, as the earth whirls on toward its finer 
and freer consciousness, its children must 
respond to its vibration and recall themselves 
and become free to vibrate in the new earth 
key by realizing the God of themselves, that 
they may co-operate with the marvelous forces 
which are now enfolding the earth and bring- 
ing it into the freer form of truth, where all is 
life and there is no destruction. 

Freedom always operates in order. 

There can be nothing disorderly or confused 
or riotous in freedom; it is equalized and 
polarized, balanced and adjusted, in accurate 
mathematical lines. And there is where hu- 
manity has erred in its conception of freedom ; 
as a race we have accepted the idea of it as 
being something apart from order and of being 



70 &ttt&p Concerning jfteeliom 

sort of an emotional quality, inaccurate and 
untrained, not realizing that any lack of bal- 
ance leads to destruction and eventually to 
disintegration, while freedom itself is a part 
of life itself. 

Freedom is of the universe an unlimited 
quality, although it is so often a hindered 
quality as to make it seem otherwise. 

Freedom is the basis of operation of all 
forces, as every one of the finer forces must 
balance in freedom or it becomes perverted. 

To illustrate — take the force of faith. 
When it is limited and bound it becomes fear, 
and its action is destructive. To do its perfect 
work faith must be unreserved and free. 

We can also illustrate with the force of love. 
How wonderful is its free constructive action 
and how horrible when, in its bound and per- 
verted state, it manifests as jealousy and hate! 

Every universal quality is manifested in 
the human being in the degree of his desire 
and his capacity, because man is the epitome 
of the universe and in him is the germ of every 



&ttrtp Concetnfns iFteeaom 71 

force which is expressed in the universe; to 
be sure, much of it is latent and all of it is 
crude, but in some degree is every atom of the 
man vibrating in its corresponding universal 
key. 

Therefore, freedom is a human as well as 
a divine principle, and if the man would be 
accurate in his externalization and conse- 
quently true to himself and to all that con- 
cerns him, he will think free and so be free. 

Freedom of human expression means that 
the body must respond to the soul demand 
through the medium of the mind; in other 
words, that the body, mind, and soul must 
vibrate in harmony, and as the human crea- 
ture is making his present home upon the earth 
planet for the purpose of his soul experience 
and development, it is the natural and there- 
fore the accurate and free thing for the soul 
demand to be the ruler of the man and of his 
earth life. 

When the mind consciously ignores the 
soul demand and compels the repression of 
the body, sacrifice of the flesh always follows. 



72 &ttt&p Concerning JFteeliom 

When the mind represses itself, thereby re- 
fusing to increase its capacity and power, sac- 
rifice of far greater importance occurs, because 
then the whole man is placed at a disadvan- 
tage; he wastes his opportunity and weakens 
his magnetism and places himself in the line 
of limitation on every plane. 

The soul never makes impossible demands; 
it knows its own necessity, and when the man 
is ready to respond to that necessity he soon 
becomes free in body and in environment. 

How often do you hear people say, "I 
wanted to do thus and so, but was afraid I 
could not afford it," or " afraid it might make 
talk or somebody might object," and so they 
deny the soul demand and crush out their 
inspiration by repressing the desire which 
would have led them into their next con- 
scious step. 

When we are true to our highest convic- 
tion, true to truth, as it were, there is never 
any question of what we can afford; we can 
afford anything we need, and there is never 
any question of what "they" may say; those 



&tudp Concerning jFteedom 73 

who are worthy of our consideration never 
criticize or condemn and those who do pass 
judgment upon us are simply infants in con- 
sciousness whose opinions are not sufficiently 
focused to influence us one way or another. 

Understand, we are not speaking of sense 
or of sensual demands — those are of the flesh 
and will be balanced by the mind; we are 
speaking of the soul desire of the human being 
who is seeking to know himself and through 
that knowledge of himself, to know God. 

The man who knows God is always free. 
Though his body may be locked in the deepest 
dungeon, he knows it is nothing in the light 
of a great awakening and he also knows that 
the locks and bars will dissolve when he is 
ready to be released. 

The first attainment of the awakening 
human creature is to know how to discrimi- 
nate between his soul desire and his sense 
demand. 

The soul demand is always constructive 
and always relates to orderly adjustment. 

The flesh desire is not always constructive, 



74 &tu&2 €ontttniw JFtttdom 

because it is frequently expressed in igno- 
rance and becomes riotous and causes mental 
and physical confusion which is never possible 
when the man permits himself to follow the 
guidance of his soul. 

The senses must be balanced and developed; 
in the service of truth they are a mighty power 
for good; when they are slaves to delusion and 
to habit they are instruments of destruction, 
and one of the most confusing of limitations is 
that which results from allowing the senses 
to dominate the mind. 

It is sense domination and mind subjuga- 
tion thereof which prevents the man from 
following the desire of his soul, and the result 
is that the flesh shrivels and the brains of the 
flesh, which should be perfect instruments of 
the mind, become atrophied and then the 
whole structure becomes a crumbling monu- 
ment to falsity instead of a glorifying temple 
of truth. 

Freedom is essentially a subtle permeating 
activity; it is sensitive and dependent upon 
harmony and truth. 



&ttt&? Concernmff jfteedom 75 

You cannot compel freedom any more than 
you can compel love, because under compulsion 
it loses its quality and ceases to be freedom, 
just as under any compelling thought love 
loses its constructive power and turns into 
aversion and fear which soon manifests in 
hate. 

Freedom must express from the within out; 
the man who is free in mind soon becomes 
free in body, and then he becomes free in 
expression, because his recognition of his soul 
requirements leads him into those experiences 
which he requires in the earth phase of his 
life lessons. 

One of the vitally important lessons which 
we must learn in our attainment of freedom 
is, that if we would be free ourselves we must 
leave every other soul in absolute freedom so 
far as we are concerned; we may help him, we 
may inspire him, provided, of course, it is his 
desire that we should ; otherwise we must have 
no judgment of any sort concerning him. 

When a person arrives at the age of respon- 
sibility, which means when he has the ability 



76 &tu&# €tmtttnins JFreebom 

to respond to the demands of his own life 
requirements, he will know that he is the cause 
of those requirements and in his own way he 
must assume them and fulfil them; he should 
not be handicapped by opinion or bound by 
other people's desires — and if you and I in- 
terfere with him and attempt to force him into 
our way of seeing and doing, he is more than 
liable to fail and his failure will react upon us 
and place us in some sort of bondage to him. 

Most of human trouble and confusion — in 
fact, we might say, all of its pain — results from 
the bondage in which men hold each other. 
They do not know that one human being 
cannot possibly own another and that if they 
hold another in slavery or permit themselves 
to be held there, it always reacts on all parties 
concerned and causes untold misery on every 
plane. 

Each form of nature's manifestation, as 
well as each human being, evolves according 
to its capacity, and it should be free to express 
its life in the degree of its development. 

The dog has his conception of freedom; he 



&ttt&2 Concerning jFtw&om 77 

is not bound by moral law or financial griev- 
ance, but he demands a master and claims his 
divine right of service to that master. 

The child changes its form of limitation 
step by step, and as it advances into its larger 
life it assumes many phases of bondage which 
must be necessary in its development or it 
would not attract them and attach them to 
itself. 

Many times we attract a greater bondage in 
our effort to escape something which we have 
assumed and from which we imagine we are 
freeing ourselves, and quite frequently we make 
such a strenuous race after happiness that we 
become abject slaves and make ourselves really 
miserable in the seeking. 

Freedom, like every other of nature's finer 
forces and activities, can be very closely imi- 
tated, and the real thing is often quite obscured 
by its outside appearance. 

The true human manifestation of freedom 
is freedom of consciousness. 

In consciousness is the truth realization 
which is absolutely chaste; it knows no evil, 



78 &ttrt? Concerning jftet&om 

passes no opinion or judgment, and sees hu- 
manity as the expression of God. 

He who is free in consciousness is free indeed, 
for he is related to the opulence of the universe, 
to the truth of life, and to the goodness of his 
own being. 

He who is bound in his consciousness may be 
lord of all he surveys and still be an abject 
slave to habit or to some delusion of his own 
creation. 

When truth is free to express itself in man, 
all things are added, and nothing of good can 
possibly be withheld from him who is free 
in his conscious realization of God. 

Verily, when all men become free in their 
consciousness and conscious in their freedom, 
every appearance of evil shall vanish from 
the face of the earth, and there shall be no 
more sorrow and no more tears, for truth shall 
rise supreme and claim its own. 



STUDY CONCERNING HEALING 



When you pray, let your prayer be for the glory and the 
uplijtment of the things that are. 

Pray that the cabbage sprout may become a glorious cab- 
bage, rather than that it may turn into a rose. 

Pray that the law be divinely fulfilled, rather than that 
you may defeat the law. 

And always, and always, pray so constructively that 
the soul shine of you is omnipresent in your life. 



StuDp Concerning pealing 




EALING is the process of recon- 
structing that which has attracted 
destruction. 

The healing process replaces what is ap- 
parently lost, balances the forces which are 
out of the truth line, and recalls to conscious- 
ness the child of good who has left his father's 
home to slumber in the wilderness. 

The human race is in the throes of dissolu- 
tion, and it must be healed; it must repent 
and recall, and readjust itself unless it would 
disintegrate and dissolve as though it never 
was. 

The process of disintegration is painful 
and the race suffers. 

Suffering is not a force nor yet a substance; 
it is the result of a grievous lack of something 
on some plane of conscious expression, and 
pain is the warning of that lack or, in other 
words, a result of the lack, just as happiness 



82 &ttt&? Concerning; pealing 

is the result of completeness and not a definite 
force externalized. 

Health, as we comprehend it, is the bal- 
anced and complete expression of the flesh 
body. 

Health, in reality, is the balanced and com- 
plete expression of every phase and of every 
form of life manifestation. 

Healing is not only a process of reconstruct- 
ing the body, but for reconstructing confused 
conditions in the individual life externalization. 

Healing means regeneration on all planes. 

When human beings, through lack of health 
degenerate on any plane, it is because they 
have misdirected their portion of the universal 
life energy and thereby thrown themselves 
out of balance with its co-operative action; 
as it is expressed in the parable of the prodigal 
son — out of their Father's house. 

When the lack is lack of love, it is espe- 
cially disastrous, because love is the cohesive 
force of the universe and absence of love means 
a weakening of every one of nature's finer 
forces; such a weakening causes degeneracy 



&ttt&# Concerning; pealing 83 

of all points, which, naturally, leads to acute 
poverty of flesh and of purse. 

However, if the man has so placed himself 
in the wilderness, where he dwells with the 
swine of disease and poverty and sin, his con- 
dition is far from hopeless, because he can al- 
ways recall and repent and return to the 
mighty and glorious intelligence of the uni- 
verse, which is, in truth, His home and where 
the loving Father always welcomes straying 
prodigal children to his abundant and com- 
plete storehouse, which is abundantly filled 
with health and wealth and wisdom and love. 

The human race has reached the point 
in its evolution where it is aware that the 
process of dissolution is rising rampant within 
its most vitalized center and that its only 
salvation depends upon its recalling itself 
and returning to truth, which is the balanced 
action of the universe and therefore the evi- 
dence of God. 

Most forcibly does the race realize that it 
has forgotten its divinity and its angelhood 
and turned to brutality and is cultivating its 



84 &tuft? Concemtnff Valine; 

swine consciousness until its God-ness is over- 
shadowed and disease claims mastery of the 
flesh and of the whole life externalization. 

The opportunity to throw off this disease 
is now — because the human desire for eman- 
cipation from poverty is aroused; verily, the 
children of the earth home are rising to con- 
sciousness and demanding their birthright of 
their Father's home. 

• 

Healing is a natural constructive process. 

There is no limit to the power of any con- 
structive current, but its operation may be 
restricted by being deflected from its inten- 
tioned course by some destructive or intrusive 
thought form which emanates from environ- 
ing minds or from some disturbing external 
condition. 

Healing is a living, enduring force which 
operates in the atmosphere of wisdom and 
love. 

The healing current is absolute and accurate 
and all-powerful when you are true to yourself 
and constructive in your attitude to life — it 



&ttt&p Concemma: pealing 85 

never fails when both patient and healer agree 
to co-operate with the divine consciousness 
of perfect being. 

If you are reaching out into the infinite and 
healing yourself, you will co-operate with 
yourself by harmonizing your body and your 
mind and your soul, thereby bringing your- 
self into the divine consciousness of perfect 
being. 

Truth is the accurate action of that divine 
consciousness, and therefore admits of no 
compromise. 

The healing current must operate in truth, 
and there is no halfway process in truth; it 
demands all, even as it gives all, and in the pure, 
chaste atmosphere of truth, no unclean thing 
can possibly exist, because the truth atmos- 
phere dissolves all inharmony and all disease, 
no matter on what plane it may be expressed. 

The finer forces of the universe are not 
regulated by manual effort, but by mental 
mastery. 

The physical body of man is the concen- 
trated magnet for all the forces of nature, and 



86 &tutip Concerning; Realms 

it is also the instrument and the transmitter 
for the intelligent regulation of the universal 
thought force. 

The desire energy is the first response to 
human thought activity; as the desire quali- 
fies and discriminates in point of selection, so 
the will energizes and promotes the action of 
desire and completes the work of formulat- 
ing whatever force of nature has been selected 
by the man through the motive energy of his 
desire. 

The will is a soul force; it acts immedi- 
ately upon the intelligence of the flesh atoms 
and especially upon those atoms which con- 
trol most directly the thought energy. 

Therefore the will, in the form of the inten- 
tive force, controls the emotions and is the 
primal factor to be considered in the study 
of the healing process which must first be 
related to the polarization of emotion. 

The natural condition of the human being 
is one of freedom. 

Freedom always means co-operation with 
the law of all expressed life; it relates to 



&ttt&p Concerning; ^ealutff 87 

health of every plane of being, and health is 
the natural, orderly, constructive, equalized 
distribution of all the forces of life. 

Lack of health is a condition of bondage. 

It is a result of misdirected energy and is 
an unnatural, disorderly, destructive plane 
of being. 

Lack of health is a condition of negative 
disorder which cannot possibly be recognized 
by an infinite consciousness, because in the 
universal or cosmic completeness nothing 
unnatural can possibly exist. 

The man himself is the cause as he is the 
continuance of all his diseases and inhar- 
monies; all ills of the flesh and all lack of 
supply are caused and nourished and entirely 
governed by his disorderly mental action. 

Many of the earth children allow them- 
selves to live in the delusive thought that 
afflictions are the result of the will of God; 
not realizing that if God is the promoter of 
affliction and death, men have not the power, 
even if they have the desire, to overcome that 
supreme will — and that it is blasphemous for 



88 &tutrp Concerning pealing 

them to make the attempt to thus defy so 
omnipotent and autocratic a ruler. 

But, glory be to the light of infinite Truth 
and Love, to-day we know that the God of 
our love is worthy of our absorbing devotion; 
we know that He is the heart of our heart and 
the life of our life and that in His great love 
consciousness there is no recognition of ab- 
normality and therefore we know that in Truth 
there is no disease and its accompanying 
despair. 

And there is always the glorious nature 
supply which in all its abundance enfolds the 
divine human creature, even though he may 
have separated himself from the supernal 
law of being which declares that all is God, and 
even though he has shut out the light and en- 
tered into the realm of nothingness, he still 
has the privilege of re-entering his Father's 
home, the truth realm, and of becoming the 
free creature which the natural law demands; 
free and natural and opulently endowed. 

When a man finds himself in darkness, in 
the bondage of sickness and poverty and sin, 



&tuDp Concerning; pealing 89 

his first move toward reconstruction is to 
recognize his desire in the matter of selection 
and then to decide exactly what he wants. 
Shall he select the truth realm of ease or shall 
he choose the delusion realm of disease? 

If he declares for delusion, it is his privi- 
lege to abide therein until his soul lays down 
its human temple because of the destructive 
force which he attracts. 

If he declares for truth and its attributes of 
Health and Wealth and Opulence and Love, 
let him change the polarity of his structure 
by deciding that he will be related to the health 
life and that no forces but those that are con- 
structive shall ever again contract him. 

Having decreed that he will attach himself 
to constructive life, let him turn his atten- 
tion to the restoring forces of nature and in- 
telligently relate himself to them until he 
can utilize his intention and his energy con- 
sciously in reorganizing his flesh and in regen- 
erating his entire being. 

As human life on the earth goes on, the in- 
stinct of the individual expression of that life 



po &tttbp Concerning pealing 

should grow stronger day by day; men 
should continually demand a more vital mani- 
festation of beauty and strength and happi- 
ness instead of becoming, as they frequently 
do, quite reconciled to the idea of being inac- 
tive and unbeautiful, a burden to themselves 
and an object of toleration to their fellow- 
men. 

There is a motive cause for every differen- 
tiation of energy; if men grow inactive or 
unbeautiful when they have lived beyond the 
first few years of youth, they alone are the 
cause, as they alone reflect the result, and 
the pity of it is that it is all a lack of under- 
standing of their relation to life, which always 
means an unbalancing of forces. 

In natural youth, the constructive forces 
act with more rapidity than the destructive. 
The result is constant and rapid up-building 
which we call growth. 

In youth we have more love and less wis- 
dom; as we accumulate experiences which 
may deflect our love, we gain more wisdom, 
and love is less in evidence — in youth it is 



&tub? €ontttnin$ Valine; 91 

love without wisdom and in age it is wisdom 
without love. 

The cultivation of wisdom apart from its 
necessary comrade, love, causes the destruc- 
tive forces to act with more rapidity than the 
constructive, and the result is inevitably dis- 
integration. 

If we would have health, if we would remain 
a long time on the earth home, if we would be 
healthy on all planes, which means happy, 
while we are here, we will learn to balance 
our love and our wisdom so that they become 
construction itself. Then we eliminate with 
our wisdom whatever does not nourish the 
flesh and whatever destroys our life harmony 
and we attract with our love the form of life 
energy and the substance of the earth which 
harmonizes with us and which contains the 
life essences which are essential to our up- 
building. 

That form of energy which is applied to 
the work of restoration and regeneration we 
call the healing force, and while it is very little 
understood by the occidental students of 



92 &ttttop Concerning; dealing 

to-day, they recognize it as a constructive 
activity which is a factual element in modern 
manifestation, and it is true that any recog- 
nition of constructive power is the first step 
toward reconstructive understanding and even- 
tual accomplishment. 

Healing of the flesh by mental energy has 
been practised by the students of occult law 
ever since the beginning of the earth's history; 
in every age and generation different systems 
have been exploited by the different prophets 
of the time. 

Many of the oriental healers relate the man 
to the solar system; they are students of as- 
trology and students of human anatomy, and 
every bone atom and every flesh atom and 
nerve atom has its place in their realization 
of the correspondence of the man to the Zodiac. 
Then with constructive and intelligent system 
they adjust the patient to his normal position 
in the universe and balance him with his 
place therein. 

The constructive thinker is he who is the 
healer, whatever system he may use; any alive 



£>tti&2 Concerning Healing 93 

force will overbalance a negative one, and the 
man who lives because he loves to live and 
who sees joy in his daily work is doing the 
healing and the saving work for himself and 
for every one around him, because his inten- 
tion is always good. 

The soul who is unafraid is another savior 
of his fellow-men; he makes the way plain 
for the beautiful faith energy which is the 
spirit of healing and of accomplishment. 

It is the cold, clammy nothingness of fear 
which holds mankind in bondage and which 
numbs the will and chills the heart and in- 
duces impotency. 

There is no place in human expression for 
the thing we call fear unless we intend to 
destroy the flesh because it is the direct an- 
tithesis of faith and is as degenerative to 
the flesh atoms as faith is regenerative to 
them. 

Faith intensifies the will and increases its 
activity on every line; in essence it is con- 
structive, it unites the individual intention 
with the universal will. 



94 &ttt&p Concerning pealing 

Hope is a force of illuminative quality; it 
lightens the path and makes possible the 
operation of faith. 

Hope follows desire and precedes every 
other of the finer forces of nature. 

Hope is strengthened by the power of imag- 
ing, which is of the greatest value in every 
sort of attainment. 

Hope always images good; it has no place 
outside of the constructive vision, and so it 
restores the spiritual balance and dissolves 
despair. 

If we would reconstruct ourselves and re- 
relate ourselves to God, we will know that 
these finer forces of nature are practical 
forces of life which we can use in our mental 
operation. We will know there are no mira- 
cles, there never have been any miracles; all 
these things which we do not quite understand 
are merely the natural operation of the law, 
but we have not yet reached the place of the 
finer comprehension. 

Jesus the Christ told us concerning these 



&tttti2 €ontttniw pealing: 95 

finer forces of nature; He explained our uni- 
versal relationship and illustrated it in what 
are called miracles. But many of the things 
he told were suppressed, and much of what 
was told was distorted, until the race has 
misinterpreted His teaching as it has misin- 
terpreted Him and many who walked before 
Him. 

It is the time; the race and the earth planet 
itself are demanding to be healed, to be bal- 
anced and adjusted to God's life. 

Love must be liberated, Truth must be 
revealed, the old delusions must pass away, 
and men must walk with God if they would 
hold their place in The Father's home. 

A slumbering world awakes 

And quivering with the fire of truth 

Declares its freedom. 

Mankind decrees its own; 

It shall dissolve its crushing woe 

In love of good. 



96 &ttt&2 €ontttnin$ Staling 

Sin shall not be; 

Its attributes of anguish shall dissolve 

In God's pure word. 

For God alone 

In this most glorious coming day, 

Shall reign supreme. 



STUDY CONCERNING THE FOURTH 
DIMENSION 



J look out over the earth home 
And a marvelous thing is there; 
A quivering, living awaking, 
A wonderful day abreaking 
On sea and earth and in air. 

Behold the atoms of earth life, 
Anew and aglow and aflame; 

With something sweet interblending, 
With consciousness all extending, 
And nothing quite the same. 

And within my soul responding 
Comes the answer to years of prayer, 
9 Tis the human child awaking, 
His heart to God is abreaking 
In His holy truth aware. 

Behold the glory of earth life 

As the wisdom of God we proclaim; 

The real of us beams transcendent; 

Our day is dawning transplendent 
For our love is aglow and aflame. 




StuDp Concerning tfte JFourtfi 
Dimension 

DIMENSION is an accurate meas- 
urement of the race consciousness 
in its adjustment to its part of the 
universal life externalization. 

Out of the unmanifest, life is becoming 
manifest, and it manifests and externalizes 
according to the thought activity of the 
universe. 

Any manifestation of form or condition 
in any realm or on any planet in the universe 
is the result of the co-operative race thought 
of the thinkers on that planet. 

Evolution depends upon thought, thought 
depends upon the thinkers, and as they be- 
come more and more conscious of their re- 
lationship to the universe, their thought 
becomes more rapid and they measure them- 
selves and their portion of life in a finer and 
more powerful key. 



ioo €oncttnins tfie jFouttS SDfmnitffon 

We are externalizing our part of life upon 
the earth planet, our angle of vision is from 
the earth, and so we will study this subject of 
dimensions from the earth angle. 

We use the term " dimension' ' to define a 
distinct point of differentiation in the race 
evolution — a definite advance in race con- 
sciousness through human mental measure- 
ment. 

The race advances as a unit — when enough 
souls are ready for a step in consciousness, 
the great realization becomes factualized and 
evident in all life manifestation; it is as a new 
world opening to humanity wherein they are 
willing to cast aside their former limitations 
and become free in their newer relation to God 
and His earth home and more attuned with 
His intentive goodness. 

He who concentrates his portion of the in- 
finite mind in relating himself to all the good 
of the unmanifest is co-operating with the 
infinite intelligence in causing the good mani- 
festation. 

The human creature is the epitome of the 



Concerning; tfje JFourtfi SDtmensfton 101 

universe; he is part of it and united with it; 
he is interpenetrated with it and all of its 
experiences; therefore the human measure- 
ment influences the universe as the universal 
measurement influences humanity. 

Life is externalized on the earth planet in 
the degree of the desire angle of the earth 
occupants. 

Human life is externalized according the 
the desire quality of the individual; as he 
thinks in his heart, he becomes in his life 
expression, and he takes his place upon the 
earth at exactly the point where he has placed 
himself in his estimate of himself. 

If I have measured myself so that I am only 
conscious of my physical sense requirement, 
my body will only use its physical sense intel- 
ligence and my life forces will vibrate to my 
physical sense demand; therein I have limited 
myself to a dimension which has not evolved 
beyond the physical sense consciousness. 

It is quite possible in such a case that by 
refusing to relate myself to finer and freer 
understanding and not being willing to vi- 



102 €onttinin$ tfjt iFouttS SDimmgion 

brate with a broader humanity that I may 
by my limitation attract poverty of body or 
mind into my atmosphere and so interfere 
with the race progress. 

And such interference means that I must 
change my relationship and go with my race 
or I must leave my present abode and go to 
some realm in the universe in which I shall 
find my place. 

When the individual feels the urge of his 
soul for a freer relationship and a broader 
life expression, he must measure himself to 
it; when he is ready to enter that plane he 
will forget his former limitation and com- 
mence anew to further the progress of himself 
and of his race. 

When the individual becomes interested in 
the study of dimensions, his consciousness is 
already merging into another dimension, and 
his consciousness does not require profound 
mathematical calculation to prove the truth 
concerning it; his is the child heart which 
comprehends it. 

Many things which are intricate and dif- 



Concerning tit jFotittS SDimengtan 103 

ficult to the highly trained materialist are as 
clear as sunlight to the spiritually attuned 
mind, because all things are simplified through 
love and the Cosmic or spiritual thinker thinks 
in his heart brain in love. 

Jesus Christ was the prophet who ushered 
in the first rays of consciousness which relate 
to the Fourth Dimension; in Him was the 
trinity merged into the cross or the square 
and humanity more unified with Divinity. 

In Jesus Christ the saving of His race was 
solving the problem of death, which is to be 
merged into life in the on-coming dimension 
when the last enemy shall be overcome. 

Death, which is the last enemy, shall be 
overcome when men know the truth concern- 
ing the resurrection and the life and it is a 
fact that we, as a race, are coming more 
clearly into the knowledge of life and its 
eternal opportunity every day. 

Material science takes one part or one fact 
and visualizes the whole from that fact, while 
spiritual science takes the whole and perceives 



104 ConcmunB; t&e iFouttS SDtmmsiton 

the one fact and all of the individual facts 
from knowledge of the whole; one is working 
from the finite toward the infinite, and the 
other is recognizing the infinite and conse- 
quently knowing the finite. 

We know very little by mere physical sense 
consciousness; we cannot by physical percep- 
tion realize the existence of the soul, and if 
our vision is purely material we are likely to 
say there is no such thing as our own soul, for 
we cannot make real our own selves except 
by realizing God in our selves. But we can, 
through super-consciousness or spiritual con- 
sciousness which is the divine realization, 
realize the soul and its forces and attributes; 
we can therein and thereby make real our 
own selves, and so we can comprehend in the 
degree of our desire the God intention and 
our part of its activity. 

The light of the next Dimension is the 
illumination of the souls of men; in its light 
we shall move beyond the limitations of human 
opinion and we shall unfold ourselves out of 
opinion into reality; we shall realize our true 



€ontttnin$ t&e jfourtf) SDimengrton 105 

selves as apart from delusion and aware of 
our divinely human nature. 

Each dimension of universal consciousness 
is composed of a vast variety of differing 
degrees of involving and evolving states of 
consciousness, resulting from our life experi- 
ences, and whether we select our experiences 
on this earth planet or elsewhere, they are 
exactly what we require for the particular 
phase of expression toward which our desire 
is leading us. 

The children of the earth home are supposed 
to be in the third dimension of universal con- 
sciousness; in other words, we are living in a 
world of three dimensions, which means that 
we are mentally measuring ourselves in the 
third angle of our human capacity — but 
the race is strengthening its capacity, and 
when the earth people become so vitalized in 
their present earth dimension that it over- 
balances its present measurement, they will 
then extend the acute angle of the third di- 
mension and measure themselves in the right 
angle of the fourth. 



io6 Concerning t&e iFouttft SDtmntjsiton 

A third dimension implies a second, and a 
second dimension implies a first, and one and 
all are merging or interrelating one with the 
other; naturally the greater force is conscious 
of the lesser, while the lesser does not realize 
the greater until it develops to the same 
strength of the greater and so becomes con- 
scious of it and equal to expression on its 
plane. 

So from our plane of consciousness in the 
third dimension, we may easily perceive the 
sphere or the quality or the strength of 
the first and of the second, but until we evolve 
to the plane of the fourth dimension, we can- 
not possibly realize its realm of action, although 
we may contemplate it, and by thinking con- 
cerning it with a constructive desire we will 
inevitably relate ourselves to it. 

As we think and study and meditate upon 
this next realm of our life manifestation, we 
become more and more attuned to its atmos- 
phere and we commence to perceive its free- 
dom and its quality of vibratory force and 
thereby we draw its thought waves into our 



Concerning tfie jfottttl) SDtmenssfon 107 

own atmosphere so that we bring its wonder- 
ful quality of interpenetration upon ourselves 
until we become a part of its broader expres- 
sion and so have the privilege and the oppor- 
tunity of helping our entire race to approach 
its finer freedom. 

AH schools of philosophy have some theory 
concerning the measure of life; most of them 
are so complicated that the theory remains 
only theory — but there is one sweet and 
simple sect who are sometimes called spiri- 
tualists, who have an explanation of dimen- 
sions and their form of mental measurement 
in such easy language that any lover of truth, 
whatever his creed or however strong his 
prejudice, can easily understand. 

According to their philosophy, the first 
dimension is length, wherein the human 
physical sense perceives only the strength line 
of forward and back and the individual mind 
measures its part of life in a direct line, with 
no variation and no swerving from the path 
of its selection, no side glance or uplift, with 



io8 Concerning tfie jfouttf) 2DtmenjSfon 

only the finer force of hope, which pertains 
to the first dimension, perceiving and relating 
it to future dimensions. 

Hope connects with its own quality of 
intention, which belongs to the second 
dimension, so the thread of the intentive con- 
sciousness connects with hope and enters the 
straight and direct line of the first dimen- 
sion — and with the union of hope and inten- 
tion, the human sense perceives a curve and 
with it comes a realization of breadth, and the 
mind action swerves into the circular motion 
of the second dimension, replacing the straight 
line of the first, or rather uniting the two. 

The race then measures itself in the two 
dimensions of length and breadth, thereby 
enlarging its life manifestation and making 
it possible to connect with the third. 

Hope and Intention in unison with expecta- 
tion finally vivify the mind of the human 
creature until the race enters the third meas- 
urement of its consciousness (thickness) in 
the trinity of its human dimension, where it is 
rapidly merging into a broader or a higher 



Concerning t&e JFourtS 2Dimen0fon 109 

measurement which will give it a fourth di- 
mension of consciousness with an added and 
far greater power which will relate it to in- 
creasing strength and therefore lead it into 
many more dimensions of transcendental 
scope. 

In our present limited mental measure- 
ment we are so closely related to the quality 
of fear that we have not yet dared to really 
concentrate our forces upon a different di- 
mension than we now understand; it is only 
the few who are unafraid and only the few 
who know that Fear has no place in the right 
angle of human expression. 

Language belongs to the second and third 
dimensions, so it is difficult to explain in words 
things that are beyond words, and much of 
the thought concerning the fourth dimen- 
sion must be given through suggestion and 
through thought transference, which belongs 
to its measurement. 

While we may not be required to explain 
these things which appear to be beyond ex- 
planation, as we each come into the finer 



no Concerning t&e iFourtfi 2Dimen0fon 

glimpse and the freer experiences which lead 
us to a broader measurement of ourselves, we 
may through our suggestions help others out 
of the narrower path, from hope into realiza- 
tion of the finer accuracy of our portion of 
the infinite manifestation. 

There is never any favor shown by an in- 
finite intelligence. The individual who per- 
ceives a finer force does so because he has 
the quality of the finer force within himself. 

No man has the gift of seeing or hearing 
or knowing more than another — Justice 
is a perfect form of love and God is just as 
He is wise and loving, and when we are ready, 
our portion of His life enlarges to meet our 
readiness. 

Emanuel Swedenborg, who is one of the 
great prophets, gives us the idea of the meas- 
urement of consciousness through and by the 
law of motion, sometimes called vibration, 
thus: i st, Straight; 2d, Circular; 3d, Spiral; 
4th, Vortexian. 

Here are a few suggestions from other 
seers which from their viewpoint express the 



ConutnftiB tfie ifouttS SDimtnsSion 



in 



four differing measurements of 


human con- 


sciousness. 






I st, — 


2nd, — 


3rd — 


4th, — 


Length. 


Breadth. 


Thickness. 


Throughness. 


Straight. 


Circular. 


Spiral. 


Vortexian. 


Hope. 


Intention. 


Expectation. 


Realization 


Love. 


Wisdom. 


Construction. 


Fulfilment. 


Faith. 


Understanding. 


Work. 


Accomplishment. 


Body. 


Mind. 


Soul. 


Ego. 



One might go on indefinitely concerning 
the merging of nature's finer forces from one 
form of expression into another, in other words, 
from their present dimension into the next or 
from the third dimension into the fourth — 
except that here again we may err because 
the next dimension is merely our measure- 
ment of the force which, through our broader 
realization, enlarges our consciousness. 

The next dimension and many beyond di- 
mensions are here now, always have been, and 
always will be, although the human creature 
fails to perceive more than his capacity per- 
mits — and, alas, he limits his capacity by 
his own selfish and introspective measurement 
of himself. 



u2 Concerning; t&e jfouttf) SDtmewston 

Have you ever felt that your vision of life 
was transcending your present measurement 
of your part of life? There comes over you 
sort of a prophetic thrill which might be 
memory and it might be prophecy, you 
scarcely know except that it is some kind of a 
fleeting thought formulation which seems to be 
beyond your present capacity to solidify — 
you cannot quite tell and you cannot hold on 
to it; of course, you do not yet know, but 
might it not be your glimpse of another 
dimension, a consciousness of things not defi- 
nitely manifest although already a subcon- 
scious part of your life? 

Again, have you sometimes known that a 
presence unseen, yet vitally real, was with 
you, almost a part of you — and have you 
perceived a wonderful transcendent realm 
interpenetrating your commonplace, every- 
day environment? Possibly you have heard 
a strain of music or a breath of fresh sweet 
odor has swept over you, seeming to connect 
you with another realm. Might it not be a 
glimpse of finer, different forces faintly relat- 



Concerning tfie jfotitt!) SDimengfion 113 

ing you to another measurement of your own 
part of life which you are recognizing a trifle 
more clearly every day? 

If we would only think on these things, 
welcome them into our part of life, and accept 
the fact that we do not yet know everything 
there is to know, instead of casting them aside 
as unworthy of our common sense, we w r ouId 
be showing a much finer common sense as well 
as relating ourselves to the opulent current 
of a distinctly opulent life wave; too often 
it is our own prejudice and our own contempt 
that holds us in the bondage of poverty on all 
planes. 

Out of the dim dark nothingness 
There comes a glorified sight, 
As though the gray murky mistiness 
Merges in clear living light. 

The recognition of a force or of a condition 
gives us a certain relationship to it, and if 
we qualify with it, we will eventually solidify 
it with our own part of life. To illustrate: 
If we recognize the forces of construction, 



u4 €onttzniw t§e JFouttS SDfmmsfton 

such as love and faith and kindness, etc., and 
practically practise them and so relate our- 
selves to them, we bring the constructive 
quality into our life manifestation in such 
solidified expression that it permeates us and 
our atmosphere, and all that we do and all 
that we possess vibrate in the key of success. 

On the contrary, if we recognize any forces 
of destruction, such as jealousy or resentment 
or condemnation, etc., to the extent of enter- 
taining them in our minds, we will permeate 
our bodies with disease and our financial 
and home conditions will be unhappy and 
unsuccessful and we may really think and so 
declare that we are unlucky and the victims 
of fate. 

It is an easy matter to blame some one else 
for our misfortune and to give ourselves credit 
for our good fortune when we know in our heart 
of hearts that we are the cause, as we are the 
effect, of our own intentive desire. 

All of these various forms of destructive 
force which are disintegrating the children of 
men, will be dissolved when mankind refuses 



Concerning; tfie iFonttS SDtmensrton 115 

to recognize the forces of destruction which 
express themselves in the forms of life activity 
which we call evil; when men entertain only 
good in their minds, then only good can exist 
in their flesh and in their lives and evil 
cannot BE; naturally disease and poverty 
and other formulations of the thing formerly 
known as evil must also disappear. 

It is only through and by the recognition of 
good*, and good means the expression of God's 
life, that the race can measure itself in the 
right angle of truth and so enter into the con- 
sciousness of another dimension. 

Existence in matter requires form, and ex- 
pression in form requires magnetic and in- 
tentive and operative ability of an infinite 
intelligence. 

In his present measurement of himself, 
the human creature does not realize that he 
is part of this infinite intelligence and that his 
responsibility is with and for the universal 
manifestation of the universal spirit substance. 

Mankind must evolve itself unto God — 



u6 Concerning t&e jfotttti) SDimensiion 

in other words, man must make good the 
thing which he has assumed and that is his 
own part of God's life. 

Every man has the ability to respond to 
the desire of his soul, and his responsibility 
cannot and does not extend beyond his highest 
claim for himself. 

The finer the spiritual perception of the 
man, the more magnetic and able becomes his 
power of attracting the idea and of anchoring 
it in form. 

We sometimes term a fine human percep- 
tion of spirit force and the accurate concep- 
tion of expressing it, as art — and it is true 
that the artist is the prophet and the lover of 
his dimension. 

He may express his art in oratory or states- 
manship, he may prefer to reveal it with his 
brush or his pen or his chisel or his violin, 
he may be a clerk or a cook, a business man 
or a home maker, whatever his taste in his 
work, he is an artist when he expresses the 
divine of him in that work because he meas- 
ures himself by his love for it, and whether 



Concerning tfje JFotttt!) 2Dtmen0ton 117 

its manifestation is taking the cubist form of 
the fourth dimension in its sound or speech 
or color or form, or whether it takes the form 
of a second or a third measurement, it is 
divine because it expresses the highest and 
holiest desire of the man. 

It is the human perception of the finer 
forces of nature which links the finite with 
the infinite, and it is the increasing human 
faith and understanding which is blending the 
human with the divine, interpenetrating mat- 
ter with spirit, thereby spiritualizing the 
whole and so accomplishing the perfect work 
of atonement or of at-one-ment in the all 
God. 

The reason we are so dense in our compre- 
hension of our own opportunity and ability 
and of our own futurity, is that we are so 
filled with our own self-love that we have no 
place within us for the love of God. 

Most people are so immersed in the desires 
of their flesh bodies that they almost destroy 
the body by centering a too dynamic thought 
force upon it; we should be far stronger on 



n8 Concerning: tfje JFourtS SDtmntjSton 

every plane, healthier and richer and more 
intelligent, if we would think out toward our 
fellow-man rather than in toward ourselves, 
because then we could permit the God life 
to enter into our innermost being and conse- 
quently we should be interpenetrated with 
the all good. 

Service to humanity means relationship 
with divinity, oneness with the Father, and 
in that relationship, all things are added and 
the fullness of infinite blessing becomes cen- 
tered in the human child who serves because 
he loves and who loves because he serves. 

There is no place apart from God, and soon 
His humanity shall be aware of His omni- 
presence, for the hour of a new measurement 
of human consciousness is upon the earth 
home. 

That which has seemed mysterious is fast 
losing its mystery, and it will be well for the 
race if it use its interpenetrative knowledge 
and power for good and for the upliftment 
and the advancement of the entire race. 

It is not so long ago that men were startled 



Concerning; t&e iFourtS SDimengiton 119 

with the idea that they could actually speak 
to each other across the miles through the me- 
dium of a wire; to-day I read of the wireless 
telephone, an instrument so attuned that the 
voice is carried without the wire. 

How long do you suppose it will be before 
the message will be carried with neither wire 
nor instrument — by attuning the ear to hear 
the soundless sound? Only until the man is 
willing to know his own power of mind and 
heart and brain, only until his desire to know 
the truth of himself and of his part of life is 
greater than outside delusion. 

The few have always known, but only the 
few are unafraid. 

Soon all humanity must know that the 
lifting of the veil shall be, that veil of uncon- 
sciousness which is already ragged and weak 
from the onslaughts of knowledge which have 
been especially rapid during these later years 
of the third dimension. 

The soul desire of the man is the force 
which leads him to the broader and more ac- 
curate measurement of himself — and it is 



120 Concerning t&e jFouttl) SDtmmjssian 

the intentive force within which, following 
hope and merging into expectation, relates 
him to the accomplished fulfilment of his de- 
sire and he realizes that he is aware of a fourth 
dimension of consciousness wherein he meas- 
ures his life and its conditions without fear 
and with interpenetrative good on all planes 
of his manifestation of that life. 

The important thing is that men shall 
desire to know of greater things than they 
have yet realized — let them open their 
minds and their hearts to hear the response 
to their desires, for the spirit of truth and of 
love which permeates all space and inspires 
all life never fails to respond to the desire 
for knowledge, although the fear of the man 
sometimes obscures the answer to his prayer. 

There is nothing marvelous or mysterious 
in the search for knowledge concerning the 
viewless path; in the early days of its first 
visioning, it was supposed to be a path of 
pain or despair, because the first faint 
glimpse was one of mystery and conse- 
quently of fear. 



Concerning t&e jFouttf) SDtmnigrton 121 

But the mystery has vanished and the fear 
is no more — the path is before us in clear, 
beautiful, and flower-banked view. The God 
of the all life reveals Himself as good, He 
claims mankind as His children, and it rests 
with His children whether or not they shall 
abide in and with Him. 

There is no lack in God's great life, for He 
is good. 

There is no fear in God's great heart, for 
He is love. 

There is no grief in God's dear home, for 
He knows all. 

Mankind shall know of life and they shall 
breathe into their hearts His love and into 
their minds His wisdom. 

There shall be no fear and no lack in the 
earth home, for the earth people shall recog- 
nize the mighty constructive intention of the 
ever living God. 

His love shall be fulfilled in humanity and 
they shall sing the song of life and walk the 
path of another dimension in joy and glad- 
ness. 



122 €ontttnixts tfit jFottttl) 2Dtmnt0ton 

A wonderful day is adawning, 

The glorious hour is come 

When the prayer of a race is answered 

As a mighty task is finished 

And a greater work is begun. 

It is not my concern if you are harsh or 
unjust to me; it is only my affair that I am 
kind and just to you. 

It is not for me to judge my neighbor, nor 
is it my place to dictate to him the line of 
his path; it is my part to regulate my own 
angle of action and to attend to keeping my 
own dooryard clean. 

It is not of use to me or my fellow-man 
that I should recognize the thing called evil; 
it is only useful for me to know that God is 
good and to be so aware of Him and His good- 
ness that I may become a light unto the path 
of all who pass my way. 

For God is all and only in His living breath 
and in His loving heart can life and you and 
I eternally endure. 



STUDY OF EXPERIENCE 



What could I know of life 
Had I not lived? 

How could I tell 

Of loss of earthly joy 

And gain oj God, 

Of giving back to earth 

The heavy clod which bound my soul 

But that I KNOW? 

So what of pain, 
If through its open door 
Come gifts more glorious 
Than one has known before? 

Aye, gifts of freer life 
And grander love 
Of God. 




§>tuDp of (Experience 

XPERIENCE is the result of actual 
life happenings. 

No man can learn living things 
for another any more than one man can meas- 
ure or judge any other human creature. We 
may profit by our brother's experience as 
humanity evolves by the race experience, but 
our individual attainment comes through our 
own actual experience. 

Because experience follows desire, our own 
quality of desire, and so results in the assimi- 
lation of these finer forces of nature to which 
we have practically and factually related our- 
selves through our individual desire and its re- 
sponse which is materialized in experience. 

Every force in the universe is latent in the 
creature that is made in the image of God, be- 
cause the universe is God, and whenever this 
divinely imaged man is ready and capable of 
externalizing these forces and using them, he 
relates himself to the realm which he requires, 



i26 &ttt&? ot (Ciper fence 

so the developing soul selects the earth planet 
for his home whenever he is ready for the earth 
experience. 

The whole Cosmos is a formulated breath- 
ing result of divine experience, and Truth 
bears witness to the absolute good of the 
holy involution and evolution of universal 
experience. 

Ofttimes the man is almost stranded by his 
vanity and selfishness and so refuses the ex- 
perience that he needs; also it sometimes 
occurs that the man nearly obliterates him- 
self by his fear and personal introspection and 
cannot quite reach the place of his needed 
experience. 

Which is the reason we are taught that the 
one essential thing in life is that men must 
know themselves and not fall into utter disso- 
lution by deceiving themselves. 

It sometimes happens that we fail to as- 
similate or even to accept the lesson of our ex- 
perience, and it is then that Mother Nature 
accentuates the experience and compels our 
attention in the form of pain, because if we re- 



&ttrt? of (Cipetf mtt 127 

fuse to be responsible for that which we have 
attracted and assumed, the infinite law which 
is the intentive force of an infinite intelli- 
gence will show us the sure and certain way. 

One of the limiting forces in our human 
reach toward the divine vision is regret; we 
demand experience, we call on life to unfold 
its mysteries to us, we feel ourselves inspired 
to draw to ourselves the living response to 
our craving souls, and then after our divine 
daring, we weaken and are afraid. 

Verily it is not surprising that we lose our 
youth and our beauty, our health and our 
joy of living, when we thwart ourselves and 
our beautiful unfoldment with the paralyz- 
ing energy of regret. 

Of what are we afraid? — 

There is absolutely nothing to fear except 
our own delusion; there is no such thing as 
"They say." People are not nearly so inter- 
ested in our affairs as we seem to think, and 
when we are true to ourselves, we very soon be- 
come true to everybody else, and then we find 
ourselves loving everybody, and when we really 



128 &tttHp of dpmence 

love other people there is no question about 
their loving us, and when people love us, they 
love the things we do. 

The soul claim is always for expanding and 
enlarging life, that it may evolve and know 
more of God and so become Godlike; and we 
do not become Godlike through any separation 
from God's creatures. Any philosophy which 
teaches us separation from another human 
creature or another phase of God's life is 
the wrong brand of philosophy. 

The only philosophy which experience proves 
true is that God is and we, you and I, are 
one with God. 

Through experience, problems are solved, 
great things are accomplished, humanity be- 
comes finer and freer in the activities of life; it 
may not always be a comfortable process, but it 
surely is an alive one if there are to be results. 

It may take a huge war, the actual smash- 
ing of bodies, to bring men out of the torpor 
of slavery, but who will deny that any experi- 
ence which frees the human race from bondage 



&ttt&? of experience 129 

and relates it to the greatness and the equality 
of individuals is worth any price? 

Can you imagine a bondman entering the 
kingdom of God where all men are equal. 

It takes slaves to make tyrants, and it be- 
longs to the slave to free himself. 

When God's children refuse to be murder- 
ers, militarism will be no more. 

When men refuse to worship the false gods 
of aristocracy and money power, monarchies 
will dissolve. 

Surely the ages of experience which have 
held mankind in hell should now show them 
the way into the place where they may have 
the privilege of being true to themselves and 
helping to greaten the world instead of using 
their intelligence to destroy it. 

Experience teaches us our relationship to 
and with each other, which is the most impor- 
tant part of our relationship with life. 

We cannot realize or even understand a 
condition which is not within range of our 
experience, not that we must necessarily do 
the thing but that we are capable of doing it 



130 fettrtp of (Cipertence 

if we are capable of formulating it in our minds; 
therefore we do not condemn the action of 
our fellow-man unless we are capable of the 
same action, otherwise we could not under- 
stand it sufficiently to judge it, and usually 
the closer it is to our own line of action the 
more loudly we denounce it. 

Likewise our appreciation of any glorious 
good and holy motive comes through our 
recognition of it and the fact that somewhere 
along the line of our expression, whether in 
the earth life or elsewhere, it has been part 
of our experience. 

Experience is the most valuable possession 
in the world. We journey from world to 
world and from realm to realm for the pur- 
pose of accumulating experience and thereby 
coming into an understanding of life in all 
its varying forms and, unlike many of our 
possessions, we may use it and we do use it 
constantly, or give it away in unlimited quan- 
tities, and it increases in strength and power 
for all of time. 

As possessions lead to expression, they 



&ttt&£ of (Kipmence 131 

naturally add to themselves by the power of 
their own action — so we have the old occult 
teaching that "to him that hath, shall be 
given and to him that hath not, shall be taken 
away," because possessions, be they mental 
or moral or metallic, will add to themselves 
by the law of their own magnetic energy. 

Therefore the man who invites experience 
finds himself plentifully endowed with many 
and various sorts of the thing he seeks, all 
increasing his power, and, if he is true to him- 
self, each one adding to his soul energy and 
strength. 

Experience gives the human creature his 
divinely human balance; it relates his love 
and his wisdom, it adjusts his faith and his 
understanding, it steadies his fanaticism and 
makes of him a holy man. 

The fanatic has unlimited love — love for 
cause or he would not be a fanatic, love for 
people or he would not try to compel them to 
accept his cause, and love for God or he would 
not sacrifice himself for what he believes 
is absolute good — but the fanatic works 



132 &ttt&p of (fczpttimit 

without experience, and so he lacks the bal- 
ancing force of wisdom, which is needed by 
love to give it creative and constructive 
power; so his creative power is void and he 
fails to externalize the thing he loves. 

Each man's position in the universe is dis- 
tinct and different from every other man's 
position; consequently each man's experience 
is distinct and different, and yet as each force 
is humanized by each individual experience, 
it adds to the strength and power of all hu- 
manity, and every force which is made prac- 
tical in human expression is made manifest 
by human experience. 

We live for experience and we live from 
experience. If we wish to develop our soul 
energy and increase our power, we do not sit 
in our own dooryard and luxuriate in its 
peace and repose; rather we assume our 
place in the turmoil of life and attract to 
ourselves as much experience as we can assimi- 
late and utilize. 

In reality there is never any end to any- 
thing which is true, because everything of 



&ttt&# of GEipmmce 133 

truth is imperishable in essence; but the 
form of truth varies and experiences change, 
and atoms and men and worlds are con- 
stantly regenerated and reconstructed and 
remanifested in newer and more complete 
forms by the increasing activity of their 
experiences. 

Every atom of spirit is reaching out for 
broader consciousness and greater power; 
when one phase of expression is completed or 
one form of experience is assimilated, another 
manifestation of life upon a higher spiral of 
evolution takes its place and a different and 
purer experience awaits our attention. 

Experiences are as the stepping stones lead- 
ing forward and onward, one dissolving into 
another and that one merging into others and 
all working toward grander and more com- 
plete consciousness of the soul. 

Anyone who attempts to violate the law, 
whether physical, social, moral, or financial, 
invites destruction upon the plane of his 
attempted violation; every person who can 
read is reminded of that fact every day of his 



134 &ttrt? of tittptvitntt 

life and he believes it in a way, yet it does 
not become factual to him and enter his reali- 
zation until he learns by experience its terrible 
truth. 

We cannot escape the truth that everything 
in our lives rests entirely in our own hands; 
if we are not supreme in our own dominion 
and if we suffer, it is because we are not mas- 
ters of that realm which is our very own and 
which we must eventually conquer, although 
it may take ages of experience to relate us in 
absolute mastery to our kingdom in our part 
of the divine life externalization. 

True spiritual culture comes from the 
purification of the self, which is a perfectly 
practical process. It does not consist in 
prayer and fasting, nor yet in sackcloth and 
ashes, but in living a life of service, and the 
life of service is not only a life of continual 
experience and consequent development, but 
it is distinctly a life of joy. 

The effect of any experience* which has once 
made its impression upon the soul abides 
with it for all time, really becomes a store- 



&ttrtp of experience 135 

house of power, and may be utilized and 
drawn upon whenever occasion demands. 

Human life ascends according to the in- 
crease of human consciousness, and with 
increasing consciousness we select grander 
and broader experiences as we pass from one 
association to another and one environment 
to another to meet the strengthening desire 
of the growing soul. 

When we have perceived, as most of us do 
somewhere along our pathway, that we have 
not learned the lesson which our experiences 
should have taught us — instead of regret- 
ting the experience and feeling that had we 
done differently we might have escaped cer- 
tain griefs, let us so relate ourselves to life 
in construction that we will only attract 
constructive experiences, and then they will 
not relate us to grief. 

We find ourselves walking along sorrowful 
lines many times, because we fail to appre- 
ciate ourselves and give ourselves proper 
recognition; no man can be happy and do 
the good and beautiful thing unless he 



136 &tu&£ of (Cipettmce 

realizes that he himself is good and beau- 
tiful 

When we are conscious of our strength on 
any plane, we naturally live at the point of 
our highest realization. If I know that I am 
clever I shall live up to that cleverness, as 
it were, and do the clever thing. On the con- 
trary, if I have a belief that I am stupid 
and that what I do is of no consequence, I 
shall very soon live stupidly and be stupid, 
because we attract exactly the sort of ex- 
perience our quality demands and we get out 
of it just and justly what our capacity permits. 

And men are not creatures of circumstance; 
their quality is the result of their desires; 
they are creatures of experience which re- 
sponds to their desires, and their own desire 
is the magnet which attracts to them what 
they actually require for their development. 

There are so many varieties in human ex- 
pression; life becomes so vividly interesting 
as our experiences unroll, each one strengthen- 
ing and beautifying and making way for 
another step in our newer and freer conscious- 



&ttrt? of experience 137 

ness wherein our motive energy transcends 
our former intention in our life and in our 
work. 

Indeed the true server of God, be he writer 
or painter, business man or home maker, is he 
who, through his holy motive, succeeds because 
his thought and his love are for and in his 
work rather than in and for the reward of the 
work. 

When one's motive is outside of self, that 
is apart from greed and sense gain, and when 
his aim is toward some work of value to his 
race instead of toward some benefit or accumu- 
lation for himself, he cannot escape success, 
because it follows inevitably — but the mo- 
ment the motive energy is degraded and its 
intentive force points, ever so slightly, toward 
money or fame or any other sort of personal 
possession, the work itself becomes degraded 
or lacking in magnetic power. 

Men and women who are taking the posi- 
tion of leaders and teachers in the newer 
awakening, assume peculiar responsibilities, 
and they soon learn that they must make their 



138 &ttt&i? ot experience 

statements from the knowledge which is 
based upon experience rather than belief, be- 
cause every formulated thought, sent into the 
heart of an inquiring soul, reacts according 
to its motive force upon the person who for- 
mulated the thought. 

All things and all activities have their 
place and their use in the Cosmic experience. 
As we are entering the consciousness of the 
next dimension it is well that we shall realize 
that we are actually and factually just what 
we have accumulated of the infinite experi- 
ence and that all which is not accurate in 
our life accumulation shall pass into its origi- 
nal substance, for only intelligent goodness 
may prevail in the expressed idea of the ever- 
living God. 

Nothing can interfere with the ultimate 
completeness of this universe; all manifest 
life shall be unified with the supreme good in 
that infinite and glorious intelligence. Al- 
ready in the mind of the universe is this in- 
tention formulated, and it is now in process 
of externalization. 



&tttdp ot (Btpttitttct 139 

For ages has the universal mind taken 
the individual soul, which is the Ego, through 
many forms of its unfolding life experience; it 
has evolved through the mineral and vegetable 
and animal realms, not necessarily upon this 
planet, but somewhere in the Father's many 
mansions. 

And now, you and I have come to the place 
where we are human creatures manifesting 
in the divine image, relating ourselves to God 
in conscious strength through our human ex- 
perience. 

Verily we shall prove ourselves worthy of 
our divine humanity. 



STUDY OF WHY 



To him that hath, shall all be given, 
Because he has BECOME 
The thing which he has claimed. 

To him that knows, shall all be spoken, 
Because he freely speaks 
The truth he has attained. 

For men become whatever they claim, 

And in the truth oj being 

And in the joy of giving, 

Comes knowledge — vast and infinite 

Of life unending. 




©tuDp of OT&p 

'OD knows. 
Therefore God is. 

To know is to be and the whole of 
externalized life has become manifest or, it 
may be more accurate to say, is becoming 
manifest because of the knowledge of an in- 
finite intelligence. 

The human creature is externalizing him- 
self according to his knowledge; he is in 
process of becoming whole, and each step in 
realization which adds to his knowledge ren- 
ders him more complete and more wholly in 
his actual being. . 

Knowledge is man's one and only posses- 
sion; every other force and attribute in all 
nature and in all life leads toward knowledge, 
but until it becomes knowledge, it is not really 
and factually his own. 

Knowledge is inclusive; its entire trend is 
toward wholeness. 



144 &tubp of Mp 

Knowledge is good; therefore it is everlast- 
ing. 

The innate demand of the soul, the true 
desire of the heart, the craving of the mind, 
and even the claim of the flesh is to know. 

Know what? 

To know what we are, who we are, from 
whence we came, whither we are going, and 
finally and primarily and most demandingly, 
why are we? 

We have a vague consciousness that we 
are because god is. 

But it is very vague and so very much 
blurred by innumerable opinions and so 
dwarfed by fear that we almost have an idea 
that God is because we are. 

Why precedes the subtle query of the soul. 

What is the symbol of mental demand 
and precedes questions relating to informa- 
tion concerning facts and conditions and 
personality. 

When and where are especially adapted 
to questions pertaining to physical expression 
and sense demands. 



&tttn? of Top 145 



Which is entirely on the plane of discrimi- 
nation or selection, which may, of course, be 
applied to all realms. 

How and how much belong to the finan- 
cial and purely external plane of expres- 
sion, as spiritual forces cannot be weighed 
and measured and the spiritual man soon for- 
gets the plane of bargain measurements. 

A person with a fair fund of information 
can reply to almost any question commenc- 
ing with what — 

To illustrate: What is the dominant color 
of the earth planet when it is expressing its 
life energy? 

Ans. Green. 

That is not difficult; any person with eyes 
to see can answer that. 

But take the more subtle question. 

Q. Why is the earth color green? 

Ans. Because the earth planet is fourth in 
the color spectrum of the solar system of which 
it is a part, it vibrates in the tone of green 
when it is most responsive to the universal 
life current because green is the fourth color 



146 &ttt&£ Of flflll)? 

visible to the human eye in its present de- 
velopment and in the direct order of its posi- 
tion in the spectrum — viz: Violet, Indigo, 
Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red. 

While that is a simple primary reply to a 
very commonplace question, you can easily 
see how much more subtle is the response to 
the query of why than to the more direct 
query of what. 

The man who is capable of formulating any 
question intelligently which commences with 
why is capable of answering that question, 
because the desire to analyze requires a co- 
operation of soul consciousness and mental 
effort which is a trifle beyond mere external 
fact, so unless the man has the capacity to 
answer it, whether he takes the trouble to do 
so or not, he has not the capacity to formu- 
late it to the focusing point of asking some 
one else to do so. 

And it is not always mental indolence which 
is our reason for seeking for causes outside of 
ourselves — rather, it is that so few people 
are aware of their own ability and of their 



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actual power. As a rule most folks are so 
absorbed with non-essentials and with their 
introspective worries which are connected 
with their personality and their creature 
comforts that they have almost lost their 
appreciation of their God-given individuality 
and their divinely innate strength and glo- 
rious opportunity. 

Possibly we may think that it is of no real 
use to understand this why of things — we 
may feel that we have no connection with 
universal causes and that anything which 
does not concern our personal interest is none 
of our affairs. 

But if it is true, as most of us say we be- 
lieve, that we are a part of the whole of infinite 
life, surely we have some small share in its 
causation as well as in its effect, and the fact 
is that as soon as we lose our interest in 
causes, effects become less vital in their rela- 
tion to us and life becomes, therefore, less 
interesting in our responsibility toward it 
and we, less masterful in our intentive force. 

And then what happens? 



148 &tU&P Of flflli)2 

Can you not see it on every side? Indif- 
ference, breeding all sorts of disease germs; 
Selfishness, cultivating atrophication; Intro- 
spection, causing insanity; Graft and Greed, 
attracting poverty and causing crime; and 
all leading to the numbing of faculties and 
the disseverance of the life current from its 
vitalized center of universal action. 

When we arouse to the realization that 'we 
are a part of the infinite expression and a di- 
rect result of a divinely intelligent intention, 
we not only have the ability but it becomes 
our sacred desire to ask of the great cause — 

Why am I? 

Every attainment results from process. 

Every accurate process emanates from some 
intelligent cause. 

Every force in operation is set in motion by 
some primal power so related to it that it quali- 
fies and vibrates with it with sufficient strength 
of intelligent intention to give it impetus. 

So nothing can be small and nothing can 
be great in this vast universal process, because 
it all proceeds from primal cause and all 



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operating in intelligent economy of nature's 
finer forces for the ultimate perfect expression 
of the whole. 

And the smallest and weakest of living crea- 
tures is deeply concerned because he is the 
cause as he is the effect of his part of this 
marvelous universe. 

And you and I are deeply concerned; ac- 
cording to the quality of our life energy and 
according to the degree of our universality, 
shall we answer and understand and know 
why we are alive in God's great home and 
why He in His supreme intention has included 
you and me. 

The universe is in process and in expres- 
sion because its creator and manifestor has 
given it Himself, His life energy, His love, 
and His wisdom. 

You and I are in process and in expression 
because we are a part of that creator and 
manifestor and we are doing as much as we 
know because we are living as much as we 
know to unify and glorify and perfect the 
whole. 



150 feftttip of TO? 

Life always expresses according to the knowl- 
edge of the being or the creature or the thing 
that is expressing it. 

Why? 

Because life is the activity of universal 
intelligence, and it can only vibrate through 
and with that intelligence which is the actual 
formulator of all manifestation. 

A blade of grass expresses only in the 
degree of its consciousness; it is manifesting 
its degree of God's life and it gives and does 
as much as it knows. 

The bird lives and is exactly what it knows; 
therein rests the truth of its being. 

Men are alive at the point of their true 
knowledge, for life always advances to meet 
truth and knowledge is inevitably true or it 
is not knowledge. 

God is the knower — His life is absolute 
law and truth is the evidence of Him and 
of the absolute eternal accuracy of that 
law. 

Knowledge transcends all reason; it re- 
quires no proof and admits of no argument. 



s>tttDp of Mbv 151 



Men know far more than they are aware 
that they know, but they understand far less 
than they think they understand. 

Why? 

Because human understanding is the re- 
sponse of analysis and mental effort; it is 
on the plane of reason and frequently answers 
to argument and to opinion. It is largely 
related to details of life and seldom goes 
beyond personality. 

Knowledge only responds to actual truth; 
it has nothing to do with supposition or "say 
so." Knowledge belongs to the plane of in- 
stinct and inspiration and while it sometimes 
follows understanding, it stands supreme in 
soul consciousness as an actual revelation of 
fact. 

Humanity is measured by its own measure- 
ment. Each soul takes its own position in 
earth life according to its own estimate. 

Why? 

Because each person has his own particular 
and individual grasp of the universal mind; 
he selects it by his desire and formulates it 



152 &tu&? ot m^v 



by his intentive will, and he can increase it 
by his increasing desire and develop it by 
his more conscious will, or he may think 
around and around in the same little rut until 
he becomes too indifferent to reach out into 
universal mind at all and subsists on the 
small part he has already selected, and then 
it will follow as the night follows the day that 
he orders his life by somebody else's opinion 
and that his possessions are the result of some 
body else's creative energy. 



It is insolence for one person to presume 
to dictate the order of his life to another. 

Why? 

Because each soul must interpret life for 
itself. How can I tell of your requirements? 
What can I know of your desire? Am I greater 
than my brother that I should presume to 
decide his problem or to visualize for him the 
plan of his life? 

Each souPs idea of God is his highest con- 
ception of himself. 



&ttt&P of M? 153 



Why? 

Because no person can think beyond his 
capacity and no person can love beyond his 
ideal, neither can he judge of that which is 
not within his own mind. 

If a man is afraid of the vengeance of God 
and sees in Him a personal embodiment of 
wrath, he himself must be vengeful in his 
thought and personal in his judgment. If, 
on the contrary, he sees the universe as God 
and sees love in its action, he is impersonal 
in His action and his ideals are constructive; 
naturally his life expression follows in natural, 
normal, and successful lines. 

Anyone who makes a definite statement 
or asserts a principle, especially when he 
claims mastery of that principle, should be 
able to answer any query concerning it, as 
he should know the truth of anything he claims 
for himself. 

Many a soul has lost a great opportunity 
by claiming that which he can neither use nor 
comprehend, but which having claimed, he 
must assume. 



i54 fe>tttnp ot wbv 



Why? 

Because one of the privileges of humanity 
is to select its own opportunity and its own 
position in life. 

A man may fulfil any desire of his body, 
his mind, or his heart if he is willing to pay 
the price; should he demand too much or 
assert himself beyond his strength, he must 
pay the price for that also. 



Wise indeed is he who can answer the 
"Why" of an inquiring child. 

Why? 

Because the child-mind is direct — and he 
who becomes as a little child is seeking the 
direct truth without fear and without limita- 
tion; the natural, normal child mind is not 
shadowed by fear and misunderstanding; it 
has not obscured its touch with the infinite 
mind by cramming its memory with non- 
essentials or by trying to get ahead of its 
friends and companions. So the child mind 
is a very clear medium for his soul demand, 



fetftttrp ot TOp 155 



and its questions are far more subtle than the 
supposedly wiser mind perceives. 

There is a question in every mind and a 
longing in every heart concerning the truth 
of that living, loving God whose intimacy 
is our very own whenever we are sufficiently 
true to ourselves to be true to Him. 

What does it matter to you and to me 
what else life reveals to us so long as we are 
close in the heart of a supreme omnipresent 
intelligence when therein nothing but good 
can remain? Nor can we remain in that 
sacred center unless we are true to it by liv- 
ing the chaste good, which is its life. And we 
shall know it in order to live it and by living 
it, to attract and to assimilate it until we be- 
come interpenetrated with the divine energy 
and all of life's love and wisdom is our very 
own. 

But every possession carries its own re- 
sponsibility, and knowledge, which is the 
greatest of all possessions, bears the responsi- 
bility in the demand of life that we live the 
truth that we know. 



156 &ttt&? Of W&V 



Never fear that you will not have the 
knowledge according to the strength of your 
desire and never doubt that you will have the 
power and the ability to express yourself 
according to your knowledge, for your strength 
comes according to the quality of your motive, 
and whether you express it in music, in ora- 
tory, in the domestic or social or commercial 
realm, or in any other form of art or science, 
the genius of you will reveal itself whenever 
and however you are ready and willing and 
awake to your own share in and of the God 
work. 

Sometimes, in fact most times, it is wisdom 
to rest in the law of non-resistance. 

Any man can force an issue, any man 
can act according to his will, but it takes a 
strong, trained soul to wait for his perfect 
hour. 

The man who knows his work and his hour 
is great enough to be still and wait — he 
knows that in the actual being good, of being 
God-conscious, he is of far more value to the 
planet by giving it silently his great uplift- 



static of Top 157 



ing force than by all the enthusiastic shouting 
he can possibly do. 

Overcoming may be superficial and rests 
with the emotions. 

Becoming is actuality and includes the 
whole. 

There is far more in actual being than in 
much doing, because being is unity with God 
force; it is deep and flawless and qualifies 
with every phase of constructive conscious- 
ness and of ultimate perfection. 

Onward Brother, — 

The light is yonder, just beyond the fear 
line. 

Only fear is to be feared, so move on out 
of its shadow into the light of your own faith 
and in the joy of your own work, that you 
may be alive and attuned to the goodness 
of your service. 

Forgive your yesterdays; they have given 
strength and wisdom to your to-day. 

Release them and let them go, that you may 
go forward in the path of a more vitalized 



158 &ttt&# of aeasp 



service for yourself and for all else of God's 
beautiful, living things which need your faith 
and your strength and your love. 

Lift up your eyes to the everlasting hills. 

Reach out your arms to the star of your 
highest aim and sing the soul song of gladness 
that you are going forward in unity with life's 
intention and pray that your faith in its ful- 
filment may endure always. 



WHOLE-NESS 



In the strength of God's 

revelation 
Do I manifest my life, 
For in that revealing glory 
His truth and His power, 
His love and His wisdom 
Are mine own. 

And I am one with His 

free life 
And one with His vast 

evidence 
Of truth in whole-ness. 




HOLE. 

Cosmic. 
Complete. 

The whole man is the divine man; he is 
cosmic in his consciousness and complete in 
his life expression. 

The human creature is the divine creature 
in process; in other words, humanity is di- 
vinity in process. 

The man is creating himself, and whether 
consciously or unconsciously, he is breathing 
into himself, with every inbreath he takes, the 
quality of the universal substance which he 
selects by the quality of his thought. 

In the heart of him, this human creator 
intends to be whole; his innate desire is for 
the good of his part of life, which is health 
and money and joy and love and all else that 
is dear to the heart and flesh of mankind; not 
only does he desire this good, but he works 



162 9Zll&OlMir00 



for and toward it so long as hope sustains 
him, which is just as long as he realizes the 
good or the God of himself. 

The only way that the thing we call evil 
can possibly exist is when good is ignored. 

Ignorance darkens the light of truth and 
limits the activity of intelligence, so that when 
we ignore good, we create a lack in our whole- 
ness; we may call this lack sickness, we may 
call it poverty, indeed, we may term it sin, 
but whatever we name it, it is ignorance 
which has excluded some part of our good and 
we are not whole. 

Ignorance does not mean lack of book learn- 
ing; many of God's children are so filled with 
the contents of books that they are fearfully 
and wonderfully ignorant, and some are so 
highly trained in militarism and other man- 
invented sciences that they ignore every law 
of God's humanity and human divinity. 

Knowledge is necessarily good, because it 
is impossible to know a thing which does not 
exist, and if men desire to be whole in the 
manifestation of their part of the infinite and 



TO0lMtt00 163 



intelligent life, they will seek with their hearts 
aflame and their minds alive for knowledge, 
that they may not only be whole but wholly 
good. 

Darkness is the nothingness of light as 
ignorance is the nothingness of consciousness 
and as fear is the nothingness of faith. 

The easy way to dissolve the darkness is to 
turn on the light; it is an entire waste of 
energy to deny the dark, but whenever the 
shine of the light enters, we know there is no 
such thing as darkness; so no matter what 
form of disease the dark represents, whether 
sickness or any other sin symbol, just flash 
the truth light of love and faith therein before 
we claim there is no disease, because until we 
do dissolve it by our love and our faith there 
remains the symbol of the dark to our outer 
senses. 

Love dissolves everything which we call 
evil; its interpenetrative subtleness casts out 
the shadow of the misinterpretation of good, 
and all the forces of human life activity are 
balanced in the light of the love shine. 



164 TOolMtegsf 



It is quite possible that in the realm of our 
untried strength there are cosmic forces 
which far outreach our present unfinished 
consciousness; the light of to-morrow may 
utterly obscure the light of to-day; the shine 
of a new dimension may entirely transcend 
all that we now perceive. 

We are quite as much in eternity now while 
we are children of the earth home as we ever 
shall be; God's life is enfolding us now as it 
always has and as it always will; it is only 
necessary that we desire to know God, which 
means to know the good of ourselves, to ac- 
tually be in heaven, because any soul who 
know himself as he really is desires to live 
his part of life in goodness that he may fulfil 
the law of his soul desire. 

The desire of the soul is always for com- 
pleteness; its entire age-long journey is for 
cosmic expression; step by step, life by life, 
always learning, always adding to its wisdom 
and to its love, this marvelous interactive 
soul is involving and evolving in the intention 
of becoming whole. 



QQl!>0lMtt00 165 



Each soul which has created for itself a 
body, whether an earth body or a sun body or 
any other body, is the microcosm of the uni- 
verse from the angle of the home of that body; 
it has its own center and its own opportunity 
from that angle. 

When the soul creates its spiritual body, 
which means its cosmic body, it has an infinite 
reach of consciousness and it evolves from the 
universal or cosmic realm of consciousness 
and is then one with the Father, ready to 
live and work and be One with the Father in 
heaven or, in other words, One with divine 
harmony. 

Most of the earth children are far from the 
place of divine harmony; they do not under- 
stand themselves and consequently cannot 
comprehend their fellow-men. We cannot 
possibly see in anyone qualities which are 
not in ourselves, and the more vitalized they 
are in ourselves, the more dominant they 
appear in others. 

Which is the reason we are warned to 
judge not that we be not judged; those 



166 TOolMttSfjS 



things which especially annoy us in other people 
are rampant in ourselves or we would not be 
disturbed by them, and it is much wiser to 
use the energy we expend in criticising other 
people in loving ourselves into harmony that 
we may help them onward by our faith and 
understanding rather than hold ourselves 
back and so intrude in the march of the race. 

And no man and no condition and no com- 
plication of forces can interfere with the on- 
sweep of life; we may resist Life's law, but if 
we do, it is you and I who will be crushed and 
broken; God's law knows only good, and when 
we are not good we are apart from that law. 

It is the infinite variety of life which works 
in togetherness for completeness or wholli- 
ness — no two human beings of all the mil- 
lions of all God's great humanity are alike, 
no two atoms in all nature are alike, nor do 
they occupy the same space — so the man and 
so the atom will work from their own indi- 
vidual center, the man relating himself and 
the atom relating itself to the whole universe 
from their angle of expression and not from 



OQl&olMietftf 167 



the viewpoint or from the desire angle of any- 
other point of consciousness. 

Until the children of earth arrive at the 
place of cosmic consciousness and become 
divine, they are still human, and it is the wise 
thing for them to balance in the place of their 
humanity before claiming divinity. 

To be humanly whole, the earth child will 
express beauty and health and wealth and joy; 
he will ignore no slightest detail which helps 
to relate him to ease of flesh or peace of mind. 

To be beautiful and wholly in flesh, we will 
balance in beauty of mind; we will relate our- 
selves to the harmony of our part of the earth, 
and we will be well groomed and well growned 
and well mannered according to the demands 
of our neighbors and our own soul call. 

When we love our neighbors as ourselves, 
we will love to please them and to serve them 
as we love to serve ourselves — and our 
neighbors are becoming nearer and dearer 
and more numerous as modern life with its 
travel and easy methods of communication 
make more intimate our relationship. 



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To be healthy and wholly in our earth body, 
we will be at ease in our minds and kind in 
our hearts; then we shall be clean in our flesh 
and pure and sweet in our consciousness. 

There is no greater asset in the health life 
than the purity of soul and mind which thinks 
goodness and speaks kindness. 

Blessed indeed are the pure in heart. 

If we would be wholly in the riches of earth, 
we will be free in our love for and in our use 
of the earth bounty; we will be unafraid that 
we shall lack at any point of our human 
expression. 

God's money is our money when we know 
we are His children; the creature who ac- 
tually knows he is interrelated with the uni- 
verse, which means he is a child of God, has 
the right angle of relationship to the infinite 
and intelligent good. 

Joy is one of the attributes of wholliness; 

who that is kind to his fellow-men and who 

obeys the highest dictates of his heart and 

mind can be otherwise than joyous? 

' Ease is one of the attributes of wholliness; 



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it is a mistake to think that it is hard to be 
good and to follow what is called the path of 
righteousness. 

To be good is the only easy way of being; 
any other state of being relates us to lack of 
ease which we call disease, and we can be- 
come uneasy in mind and diseased in flesh 
very quickly when we disconnect ourselves 
from good. 

And righteousness is merely the right angle 
of consciousness which is our individual place 
of vision and our center in the infinite whole; 
when we follow the path of righteousness, we 
are true to ourselves according to our under- 
standing and living right as our vision recog- 
nizes right. 

There are no accidents in the all-life; every 
result has a cause somewhere along the way. 
The law of life is as accurate as the force of 
justice which sustains it, and justice is ab- 
solute because it is the exact right angle of 
all intelligent action. 

If I so far forget myself as to judge and criti- 
cise and condemn my brother I am thereby 



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creating a triangular force of judgment and 
criticism and condemnation which, when put 
in operation by my intentive energy, returns 
to the heart of me in the precise angle and 
ratio in which it was projected, and it reacts 
on my life forces according to the quality and 
force of my intention. 

Is it surprising that some of us develop dis- 
ease of the flesh and crinkle up in lines that 
men dread as signals of on-coming age? 

There is no excuse for hideous flesh because 
of long life; time would mark us in beauty 
and wholliness if we would allow it, but we 
resist and hate and fear and fight, we put into 
action and create in the atoms of our flesh 
forces of destruction which lead to disinte- 
gration most ghastly. And then, afraid of 
the thing which we have done, we beg for 
mercy, thinking we may attract some special 
favor from God, whom we have dishonored 
and betrayed. 

It is our privilege to free the Christ of 
ourselves from the Judas of our own heart 
center, that we may walk along our path of 



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righteousness with clean hands and a pure 
heart. 

We want to live according to our vision of 
the right angle of our part of life. We want 
to rest at the right hand of our God and we 
desire above all else that we only receive what 
we deserve. 

And we intend to deserve by our work and 
by our love all of life's good in whole-ness. 

There is one God. 

That one God is the universal whole. 

Uni-verse literally means One-whole, and 
in the Divine Unity is the primal substance 
externalized by one wholly principle and one 
infinite process. 

The physical senses do not comprehend 
the externalization of life through the inbreath 
and outbreath of the omni-active God, — 
but the man who desires to know concerning 
God and who intends to live in the good of 
the earth life can and does relate himself to 
the accurate action of the infinite intelligence 
— he then lives in the law, which means that 
he breathes with the activity of God, and in 



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that divine breath the human creature is 
made whole. 

We are never anxious when we are related 
to the law in the pure desire; it is only when 
we resist the law that we fail or fall. 

This glorious law is mindful of its own 
and, like a wise and loving parent, it some- 
times points the way in punishment and 
pain when the child it loves resists its per- 
fect work. 

Suppose our human brain does not quite 
understand; it can lay its burden on the 
law and wait until the way is made plain. 
When we trust, the waiting is not long or 
wearisome. 

Suppose our will is thwarted and our de- 
sire suppressed; it is only that something is 
unfinished which we have left undone, some 
cause has tangled the thread of our accurate 
life action, and it is for us to finish and clear 
our path which leads to righteousness. 

So we will breathe in our hearts for the 
beautiful light of construction, that it may 
show us the way to walk at ease along the 



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righteous highway toward our Cosmic expres- 
sion of whole-ness. 

Nothing which we have assumed can be 
left unfinished; it is useless to attempt to 
escape from any force which we have once set 
in motion. 

When the supreme intelligence breathes 
into the human creature the breath of life 
which is the Cosmic breath, he is then made 
or manifested in the image of God with the 
attributes of God, and he becomes his own 
creator, which really means his own external- 
izer; because there is nothing new in the uni- 
verse, unmanifest, yes, and unexpressed — 
but every atom of cosmic substance, expressed 
or unexpressed, is waiting in its own time and 
place the awakening breath of God. 

The atom must be complete before the man 
is whole. 

The man must be complete before the race 
is whole. 

The race must be unified in love and wis- 
dom and complete in wholliness before its 
earth home manifests in perfection. 



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Verily there is nothing unworthy in God's 
great life, nothing to be ignored, nothing 
which may not be wrought anew and no prob- 
lem which is not solved (saved) in the recog- 
nition of the divine human relationship of 
God and Man. 

As yet the man creature is but an infant in 
consciousness; he writhes in his fierce unrest 
like the child which fights with all its puny 
strength the hand that guides it to safety. 

It is good to know that time is endless and 
that good shall prevail. 

Ay, though ages and ages roll away before 
divine unity is expresssed, God's children 
shall return to Him in whole-ness. 



STUDY OF FREEDOM 



y Tis not enough for me to say 
That God is good. 
No man can know of good 
Least he is good. 

'Tis not enough for me to speak 
The word of life. 
No man can know of life 
Unless he lives. 

Oh, heedless man — of mortal ken 9 

Thou knowest not 

Of God and His intent 

Until thou lovest all his life 

And art alive thyself 

Because of thy great love. 



StuDp of jFreeDom 

God make us free. 

Hark ye to the cry of man, 

God -lake us free — 

From crushing unbelief in Thee 

God make us free, 

From grim, despairing pain and grief 

God make us free. 

Ah, pitying soul, dost thou not hear 
Afar and near and everywhere — 
From earth and sky and sea 
Breathes out the prayer, 
God makes us free. 

Awake, doubting heart, 

'Tis only that thou did'st not know 

That love is free, 

That God is good and nothing else can be 

When men are free. 

How couldst thou know 
That man is one with God, 
One in His life and love, 
One in His freedom? 

It is not strange thy cry goes forth 
In human discontent, 
God make us free. 



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Arise, man, and face thine own unfaith 
And know that it has brought to thee 
Thy pain and woe. 

Know that from within thyself alone 

Can shackles melt away 

And freedom enter in, — 

Know that 'tis thy lack, thy greed, 

Thy fear and thy unrest 

Which brands the heart of thee 

And rends thy soul. 

Oh, soul of love's intent, — 
God make us free. 

And it shall be. 

The hour is nigh, the day is come, 

The world awaits the call 

Of men and angels 

Who, all enthralled in God's great lovingness 

Do know — 

And knowing shall proclaim 

God's world is free. 



AFTERWORD 




aftettoom 

FAIR child stood at the gatway of 
a restless world. 

Above her and around her and 
enfolding her was the fullness of a vivid life, 
and the child reached out her dimpling baby 
hand in gladness as she sang the beautiful 
song of youth: "It is all for me, for me — 
the great earth is my playground; the daisies 
bloom for me, and I shall sing and laugh and 
play always because of their love for me." 

And the days rolled on and the fair child 
saw the daisies fade and the deep winter 
snows enfold her playground, while the bitter 
wind chilled the buoyant air and stilled the 
heart throb of the waters as it pressed them 
in its icy embrace. 

A maiden stood at the threshold of life's 
temple of experience. "Never mind the 
fading daisies and the stilled waters,' ' she 
sang. "I shall seek my joy in the throbbing 
heart of humanity; there I shall laugh and 



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sing and play always because youth and 
beauty and love are all for me — for me, 
and I shall meet and conquer because of 
their love for me." 

The days swept on and a woman with the 
flush of triumph on her face stood upon 
life's pinnacle. "O glorious life/' she cried," I 
love the fierceness of thy blast because I 
am greater than all its fury. I love thy great 
opulence because it is all for me — for me; 
and I love thy crashing torrent though it may 
sweep away all the world, it cannot assail 
me upon my pinnacle of fame and beauty and 
gold." And she raised high to heaven her 
slim white hands as though she would draw 
from its depths even more of earth's gifts to 
strengthen her triumph. 

Even as the last tone of her exultant voice 
melted into the golden air, a shiver as of pass- 
ing human agony swept over her swaying 
form and she stooped in shuddering surprise 
as a breath of fierce, anguished unrest entered 
her awakening heart and tore away all pride 
of flesh and gold and human adulations. And 



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the woman saw as one aroused from a trance 
of ages a world teeming with struggling 
human creatures and herself one with them, 
no more no less than they. 

The years blended into eternity and a 
woman, beautiful with the chastening glory 
of life's experience, stood out upon the sunlit 
plains while the radiance as of a great blessing 
fell around her gracious form. "O life," 
she cried, "at last I know thy law. I am 
created for thee, and as I give my love and 
my service to thee, all of thy great treasures 
are mine because I am created for thee — for 
thee, O glorious life!" 

And, as the woman passed on into the 
mighty current of the world's work, she heard 
in the deep silence life's answer: 

"O child, O maiden, O woman of sorrow 
and woman of joy, thou hast met me and 
learned my lesson well. 

"My sorrows which thou hast overcome 
with love, my joys which thou hast welcomed 
with love, my labors which thou hast accom- 
plished in love, have given thee this great 



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enlightenment, that love is the fulfilment of 
my law; in that realization thou knowest 
that no man can be greater than another and 
no man can be lesser than another, humanity 
is one in God's clear love. 

"And thou shalt sing and laugh always 
because of thy love." 



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